| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Modeste Mignon by Honore de Balzac: my senses in thinking of you, for you combine all that can trouble
the head or the heart of man. I therefore make the most of the
little self-possession you have left me to offer you my humble
remonstrances.
Do you really believe, mademoiselle, that letters, more or less
true in relation to the life of the writers, more or less
insincere,--for those which we write to each other are the
expressions of the moment at which we pen them, and not of the
general tenor of our lives,--do you believe, I say, that beautiful
as they may be, they can at all replace the representation that we
could make of ourselves to each other by the revelations of daily
Modeste Mignon |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: of aspect and contour are too closely bound up with the common
life-forms of this planet and of the three known dimensions. It
was partly human, beyond a doubt, with very manlike hands and
head, and the goatish, chinless face had the stamp of the Whateley's
upon it. But the torso and lower parts of the body were teratologically
fabulous, so that only generous clothing could ever have enabled
it to walk on earth unchallenged or uneradicated.
Above the
waist it was semi-anthropomorphic; though its chest, where the
dog's rending paws still rested watchfully, had the leathery,
reticulated hide of a crocodile or alligator. The back was piebald
The Dunwich Horror |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Republic by Plato: last wholly dissolves and dies?
True.
The vice and evil which is inherent in each is the destruction of each; and
if this does not destroy them there is nothing else that will; for good
certainly will not destroy them, nor again, that which is neither good nor
evil.
Certainly not.
If, then, we find any nature which having this inherent corruption cannot
be dissolved or destroyed, we may be certain that of such a nature there is
no destruction?
That may be assumed.
The Republic |
