| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Youth by Joseph Conrad: dare say he was right. It seems to me I knew very little
then, and I know not much more now; but I cherish a
hate for that Jermyn to this day.
"We were a week working up as far as Yarmouth
Roads, and then we got into a gale--the famous October
gale of twenty-two years ago. It was wind, lightning,
sleet, snow, and a terrific sea. We were flying light, and
you may imagine how bad it was when I tell you we had
smashed bulwarks and a flooded deck. On the second
night she shifted her ballast into the lee bow, and by
that time we had been blown off somewhere on the Dogger
Youth |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tanach: Proverbs 24: 31 And, lo, it was all grown over with thistles, the face thereof was covered with nettles, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Proverbs 24: 32 Then I beheld, and considered well; I saw, and received instruction.
Proverbs 24: 33 'Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep'--
Proverbs 24: 34 So shall thy poverty come as a runner, and thy want as an armed man.
Proverbs 25: 1 These also are proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out.
Proverbs 25: 2 It is the glory of God to conceal a thing; but the glory of kings is to search out a matter.
Proverbs 25: 3 The heaven for height, and the earth for depth, and the heart of kings is unsearchable.
Proverbs 25: 4 Take away the dross from the silver, and there cometh forth a vessel for the refiner;
Proverbs 25: 5 Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.
Proverbs 25: 6 Glorify not thyself in the presence of the king, and stand not in the place of great men;
Proverbs 25: 7 For better is it that it be said unto thee: 'Come up hither', than that thou shouldest be put lower in the presence of the prince, whom thine eyes have seen.
The Tanach |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Captain Stormfield by Mark Twain: coming like a house afire. Now I noticed that the skies were black
with millions of people, pointed for those gates. What a roar they
made, rushing through the air! The ground was as thick as ants
with people, too - billions of them, I judge.
I lit. I drifted up to a gate with a swarm of people, and when it
was my turn the head clerk says, in a business-like way -
"Well, quick! Where are you from?"
"San Francisco," says I.
"San Fran - WHAT?" says he.
"San Francisco."
He scratched his head and looked puzzled, then he says -
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