| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche: A small revenge is humaner than no revenge at all. And if the punishment
be not also a right and an honour to the transgressor, I do not like your
punishing.
Nobler is it to own oneself in the wrong than to establish one's right,
especially if one be in the right. Only, one must be rich enough to do so.
I do not like your cold justice; out of the eye of your judges there always
glanceth the executioner and his cold steel.
Tell me: where find we justice, which is love with seeing eyes?
Devise me, then, the love which not only beareth all punishment, but also
all guilt!
Devise me, then, the justice which acquitteth every one except the judge!
Thus Spake Zarathustra |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates: rotten thing."
Her eyes flashed and she was trembling all over. From being
pretty, she had become beautiful.
"Perhaps not," said I steadily. "But if they had, they would
have meant it, Silvia."
"As you did."
I coiled the flexible cord about a finger, loosed it and thrust
it into my pocket.
"I'll go now," I said, "as I came."
"Like a thief."
"Like a thief. You have been wonderfully kind, and I- I have
The Brother of Daphne |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from 1492 by Mary Johntson: us. ``Land! Land!'' Now we saw it under the moon,
just lifting above the sea,--lonely, peaceful, dark.
It was middle night. The Santa Maria, the Pinta and the
Nina went another league, then took in sail and came to
anchor.
CHAPTER XV
THE Admiral set a watch and commanded all beside
to sleep. To-morrow might be work and wakefulness
enough! The ship grew silent. With the _Pinta_
and the Nina it lay under the moon, and all around was
silver water.
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