| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Commission in Lunacy by Honore de Balzac: Visitors wanting to see him commonly found him there, and often the
two boys on their return from school resorted thither. Thus the
ground-floor rooms were a sort of sanctuary where the father and sons
spent their time from the hour of dinner till the next day, and his
domestic life was carefully closed against the public eye.
His only servants were a cook--an old woman who had long been attached
to his family--and a man-servant forty years old, who was with him
when he married Mademoiselle de Blamont. His children's nurse had also
remained with them, and the minute care to which the apartment bore
witness revealed the sense of order and the maternal affections
expended by this woman in her master's interest, in the management of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: before. The sentence is not changed with me, nor am I unjust to my
servants.'
On the day we will say to hell, 'Art thou full? and it will say,
'Are there any more?'
And Paradise shall be brought near to the pious,-not far off.
This is what ye are promised, to every one who turns frequently
(to God) and keeps His commandments: who fears the Merciful in
secret and brings a repentant heart.
'Enter into it in peace: this is the day of eternity!'
They shall have what they wish therein, and increase from us!
How many a generation have we destroyed before them, mightier than
The Koran |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Of The Nature of Things by Lucretius: For in what else may we suppose the clime
Among the Britons to differ from Aegypt's own
(Where totters awry the axis of the world),
Or in what else to differ Pontic clime
From Gades' and from climes adown the south,
On to black generations of strong men
With sun-baked skins? Even as we thus do see
Four climes diverse under the four main-winds
And under the four main-regions of the sky,
So, too, are seen the colour and face of men
Vastly to disagree, and fixed diseases
Of The Nature of Things |
