| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Reason Discourse by Rene Descartes: which may be observed in the heart by the eye alone, and from the heat
which may be felt with the fingers, and from the nature of the blood as
learned from experience, as does the motion of a clock from the power, the
situation, and shape of its counterweights and wheels.
But if it be asked how it happens that the blood in the veins, flowing in
this way continually into the heart, is not exhausted, and why the
arteries do not become too full, since all the blood which passes through
the heart flows into them, I need only mention in reply what has been
written by a physician 1 of England, who has the honor of having broken
the ice on this subject, and of having been the first to teach that there
are many small passages at the extremities of the arteries, through which
Reason Discourse |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Unconscious Comedians by Honore de Balzac: turned his head. In these days, my dear fellow, under our new
political dispensation, every human being tries to cover himself with
glory, and most of them cover themselves with ridicule; hence a lot of
living caricatures quite new to the world."
"If everybody gets glory, who can be famous?" said Gazonal.
"Fame! none but fools want that," replied Bixiou. "Your cousin wears
the cross, but I'm the better dressed of the two, and it is I whom
people are looking at."
After this remark, which may explain why orators and other great
statesmen no longer put the ribbon in their buttonholes when in Paris,
Leon showed Gazonal a sign, bearing, in golden letters, the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: who make the circuits, for those who stand to pray, for those who bow,
and for those too who adore.
'And proclaim amongst men the Pilgrimage; let them come to you on
foot and on every slim camel, from every deep pass, that they may
witness advantages for them, and may mention the name of God for the
stated days over what God has provided them with of brute beasts, then
eat thereof and feed the badly off, the poor.
'Then let them finish the neglect of their persons, and let them pay
their vows and make the circuit round the old House.
'That do. And whoso magnifies the sacred things of God it is
better for him with his Lord.
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