| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: naught for me, naught for you. It cares only for Lutha. For
strategic purposes it must have Lutha. It will trample you
under foot to gain its end, and then it will cast Peter of
Blentz aside. You have insinuated, sire, that I am ambitious.
I am. I am ambitious to maintain the integrity and freedom
of Lutha.
"For three hundred years the Von der Tanns have labored
and fought for the welfare of Lutha. It was a Von der Tann
that put the first Rubinroth king upon the throne of Lutha.
To the last they were loyal to the former dynasty while
that dynasty was loyal to Lutha. Only when the king at-
The Mad King |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Soul of Man by Oscar Wilde: Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as
bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new
forms. They are always asking a writer why he does not write like
somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody
else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did
anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist. A fresh mode
of Beauty is absolutely distasteful to them, and whenever it
appears they get so angry, and bewildered that they always use two
stupid expressions - one is that the work of art is grossly
unintelligible; the other, that the work of art is grossly immoral.
What they mean by these words seems to me to be this. When they
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Redheaded Outfield by Zane Grey: Burt was the first man up. He stood left-handed
at the plate and looked formidable. Duveen, the
wary old pitcher for New York, to whom this new
player was an unknown quantity, eyed his easy
position as if reckoning on a possible weakness.
Then he took his swing and threw the ball. Burt
never moved a muscle and the umpire called strike.
The next was a ball, the next a strike; still Burt
had not moved.
``Somebody wake him up!'' yelled a wag in the
bleachers. ``He's from Slumbertown, all right, all
The Redheaded Outfield |
