| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence: evolution would eliminate this performance, this 'function'.
And yet when he had finished, soon over, and lay very very still,
receding into silence, and a strange motionless distance, far, farther
than the horizon of her awareness, her heart began to weep. She could
feel him ebbing away, ebbing away, leaving her there like a stone on a
shore. He was withdrawing, his spirit was leaving her. He knew.
And in real grief, tormented by her own double consciousness and
reaction, she began to weep. He took no notice, or did not even know.
The storm of weeping swelled and shook her, and shook him.
'Ay!' he said. 'It was no good that time. You wasn't there.'--So he
knew! Her sobs became violent.
Lady Chatterley's Lover |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Sesame and Lilies by John Ruskin: failure,--but bad with dreadful power--the power of the Furies and
the Harpies mingled, enraging, and polluting; that so long as you
looked at it, no perception of pure or beautiful art was possible
for you. Suppose I were to tell you that! What would be the use?
Would you look at Gustave Dore less? Rather, more, I fancy. On the
other hand, I could soon put you into good humour with me, if I
chose. I know well enough what you like, and how to praise it to
your better liking. I could talk to you about moonlight, and
twilight, and spring flowers, and autumn leaves, and the Madonnas of
Raphael--how motherly! and the Sibyls of Michael Angelo--how
majestic! and the Saints of Angelico--how pious! and the Cherubs of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Road to Oz by L. Frank Baum: Dox he said they clothed themselves because they were civilized.
"But you were born without clothes," she observed, "and you don't seem
to me to need them."
"So were human beings born without clothes," he replied; "and until
they became civilized they wore only their natural skins. But to
become civilized means to dress as elaborately and prettily as
possible, and to make a show of your clothes so your neighbors will
envy you, and for that reason both civilized foxes and civilized
humans spend most of their time dressing themselves."
"I don't," declared the shaggy man.
"That is true," said the King, looking at him carefully; "but perhaps
The Road to Oz |
