| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: night the ten companies rode south toward Essex without
other halt than for necessary food and water for man and
beast.
When the body of Joan de Tany rode forth from her
father's castle to the church at Colchester, and again as
it was brought back to its final resting place in the
castle's crypt, a thousand strange and silent knights,
black draped, upon horses trapped in black, rode slowly
behind the bier.
Silently they had come in the night preceding the fun-
eral, and as silently they slipped away northward into
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring by George Bernard Shaw: wrote to Roeckel on the 23rd. August 1856, "can an artist expect
that what he has felt intuitively should be perfectly realized by
others, seeing that he himself feels in the presence of his work,
if it is true Art, that he is confronted by a riddle, about which
he, too, might have illusions, just as another might?"
The truth is, we are apt to deify men of genius, exactly as we
deify the creative force of the universe, by attributing to
logical design what is the result of blind instinct. What Wagner
meant by "true Art" is the operation of the artist's instinct,
which is just as blind as any other instinct. Mozart, asked for
an explanation of his works, said frankly "How do I know?"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence: hate her.'
'You'll see she'll come back to you.'
'That she never will. That's done! It would make me sick to see her.'
'You will see her. And you're not even legally separated, are you?'
'No.'
'Ah well, then she'll come back, and you'll have to take her in.'
He gazed at Connie fixedly. Then he gave the queer toss of his head.
'You might be right. I was a fool ever to come back here. But I felt
stranded and had to go somewhere. A man's a poor bit of a wastrel blown
about. But you're right. I'll get a divorce and get clear. I hate those
things like death, officials and courts and judges. But I've got to get
Lady Chatterley's Lover |
