| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells: self-reproach in Sir Richmond's voice.
"I get fond of people. It is quite irrational, but I get fond
of them. Which is quite a different thing from the admiration
and excitement of falling in love. Almost the opposite thing.
They cry or they come some mental or physical cropper and
hurt themselves, or they do something distressingly little
and human and suddenly I find they've GOT me. I'm distressed.
I'm filled with something between pity and an impulse of
responsibility. I become tender towards them. I am impelled
to take care of them. I want to ease them off, to reassure
them, to make them stop hurting at any cost. I don't see why
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tanach: Genesis 23: 7 And Abraham rose up, and bowed down to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth.
Genesis 23: 8 And he spoke with them, saying: 'If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,
Genesis 23: 9 that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath, which is in the end of his field; for the full price let him give it to me in the midst of you for a possession of a burying-place.'
Genesis 23: 10 Now Ephron was sitting in the midst of the children of Heth; and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the children of Heth, even of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying:
Genesis 23: 11 'Nay, my lord, hear me: the field give I thee, and the cave that is therein, I give it thee; in the presence of the sons of my people give I it thee; bury thy dead.'
Genesis 23: 12 And Abraham bowed down before the people of the land.
Genesis 23: 13 And he spoke unto Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, saying: 'But if thou wilt, I pray thee, hear me: I will give the price of the field; take it of me, and I will bury my dead there.'
Genesis 23: 14 And Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him:
The Tanach |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Eryxias by Platonic Imitator: It happened by chance that Eryxias the Steirian was walking with me in the
Portico of Zeus the Deliverer, when there came up to us Critias and
Erasistratus, the latter the son of Phaeax, who was the nephew of
Erasistratus. Now Erasistratus had just arrived from Sicily and that part
of the world. As they approached, he said, Hail, Socrates!
SOCRATES: The same to you, I said; have you any good news from Sicily to
tell us?
ERASISTRATUS: Most excellent. But, if you please, let us first sit down;
for I am tired with my yesterday's journey from Megara.
SOCRATES: Gladly, if that is your desire.
ERASISTRATUS: What would you wish to hear first? he said. What the
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