| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: We have not sent any prophet before thee, but we inspired him
that, 'There is no god but Me, so serve ye Me.'
And they say, 'The Merciful has taken a son; celebrated be His
praise!'-Nay, honoured servants; they do not speak until He speaks;
but at His bidding do they act. He knows what is before them, and what
is behind them, and they shall not intercede except for him whom He is
pleased with; and they shrink through fear.
And whoso of them should say, 'Verily, I am god instead of Him,'
such a one we recompense with hell; thus do we recompense the
wrong-doers.
Do not those who misbelieve see that the heavens and the earth
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells: until some one, who I think was one of the two Swine Men I
had seen, thrust his head over the little pink sloth-creature
and shouted something excitedly, something that I did not catch.
Incontinently those at the opening of the hut vanished; my Ape-man
rushed out; the thing that had sat in the dark followed him
(I only observed that it was big and clumsy, and covered with silvery
hair), and I was left alone. Then before I reached the aperture I heard
the yelp of a staghound.
In another moment I was standing outside the hovel, my chair-rail
in my hand, every muscle of me quivering. Before me were the clumsy
backs of perhaps a score of these Beast People, their misshapen heads
The Island of Doctor Moreau |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Essays of Francis Bacon by Francis Bacon: and gracious motion, more than that of favor. That
is the best part of beauty, which a picture cannot
express; no, nor the first sight of the life. There is no
excellent beauty, that hath not some strangeness
in the proportion. A man cannot tell whether
Apelles, or Albert Durer, were the more trifler;
whereof the one, would make a personage by geo-
metrical proportions; the other, by taking the best
parts out of divers faces, to make one excellent.
Such personages, I think, would please nobody,
but the painter that made them. Not but I think a
Essays of Francis Bacon |
