| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare: [They sit at table.]
PETRUCHIO.
Nothing but sit and sit, and eat and eat!
BAPTISTA.
Padua affords this kindness, son Petruchio.
PETRUCHIO.
Padua affords nothing but what is kind.
HORTENSIO.
For both our sakes I would that word were true.
PETRUCHIO.
Now, for my life, Hortensio fears his widow.
The Taming of the Shrew |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche: say. The question is ultimately whether we really recognize the
will as OPERATING, whether we believe in the causality of the
will; if we do so--and fundamentally our belief IN THIS is just
our belief in causality itself--we MUST make the attempt to posit
hypothetically the causality of the will as the only causality.
"Will" can naturally only operate on "will"--and not on "matter"
(not on "nerves," for instance): in short, the hypothesis must be
hazarded, whether will does not operate on will wherever
"effects" are recognized--and whether all mechanical action,
inasmuch as a power operates therein, is not just the power of
will, the effect of will. Granted, finally, that we succeeded in
Beyond Good and Evil |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Herland by Charlotte Gilman: "Hold on, Terry--hold on!" I warned. "That's too easy. Look
out for a trap."
"Let us appeal to their kind hearts," Jeff urged. "I think they
will help us. Perhaps they've got knives."
"It's no use rushing them, anyhow," I was absolutely holding
on to Terry. "We know they can out-run and out-climb us."
He reluctantly admitted this; and after a brief parley among
ourselves, we all advanced slowly toward them, holding out our
hands in token of friendliness.
They stood their ground till we had come fairly near, and
then indicated that we should stop. To make sure, we advanced
Herland |
