| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Hamlet by William Shakespeare: for Wise men know well enough, what monsters you
make of them. To a Nunnery go, and quickly too. Farwell
Ophe. O heauenly Powers, restore him
Ham. I haue heard of your pratlings too wel enough.
God has giuen you one pace, and you make your selfe another:
you gidge, you amble, and you lispe, and nickname
Gods creatures, and make your Wantonnesse, your Ignorance.
Go too, Ile no more on't, it hath made me mad.
I say, we will haue no more Marriages. Those that are
married already, all but one shall liue, the rest shall keep
as they are. To a Nunnery, go.
Hamlet |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne: supernatural -- as having been his correspondents or associates.
Why, with such rank in the learned world, had he come hither?
What, could he, whose sphere was in great cities, be seeking in
the wilderness? In answer to this query, a rumour gained ground
-- and however absurd, was entertained by some very sensible
people -- that Heaven had wrought an absolute miracle, by
transporting an eminent Doctor of Physic from a German university
bodily through the air and setting him down at the door of Mr.
Dimmesdale's study! Individuals of wiser faith, indeed, who knew
that Heaven promotes its purposes without aiming at the
stage-effect of what is called miraculous interposition, were
The Scarlet Letter |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Enemies of Books by William Blades: their dusty old frames in dim astonishment as we passed,
evidently wondering whether we meant "work"; book-decay--
that peculiar flavour which haunts certain libraries--
was heavy in the air, the floor was dusty, making the sunbeams
as we passed bright with atoms; the shelves were dusty,
the "stands" in the middle were thick with dust, the old
leather table in the bow window, and the chairs on either side,
were very dusty. Replying to a question, my conductor thought
there was a manuscript catalogue of the Library somewhere,
but thought, also, that it was not easy to find any books by it,
and he knew not at the minute where to put his hand upon it.
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