| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lair of the White Worm by Bram Stoker: deep and slow, and there were holes of abysmal depth, where any kind
and size of antediluvian monster could find a habitat. In places,
which now we can see from our windows, were mud-holes a hundred or
more feet deep. Who can tell us when the age of the monsters which
flourished in slime came to an end? There must have been places and
conditions which made for greater longevity, greater size, greater
strength than was usual. Such over-lappings may have come down even
to our earlier centuries. Nay, are there not now creatures of a
vastness of bulk regarded by the generality of men as impossible?
Even in our own day there are seen the traces of animals, if not the
animals themselves, of stupendous size--veritable survivals from
Lair of the White Worm |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Aesop's Fables by Aesop: The Young Thief and His Mother
A young Man had been caught in a daring act of theft and had
been condemned to be executed for it. He expressed his desire to
see his Mother, and to speak with her before he was led to
execution, and of course this was granted. When his Mother came
to him he said: "I want to whisper to you," and when she brought
her ear near him, he nearly bit it off. All the bystanders were
horrified, and asked him what he could mean by such brutal and
inhuman conduct. "It is to punish her," he said. "When I was
young I began with stealing little things, and brought them home
to Mother. Instead of rebuking and punishing me, she laughed and
Aesop's Fables |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: princes, his wives, and his concubines, drank in them.
DAN 5:4 They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver,
of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
DAN 5:5 In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote
over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king's
palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
DAN 5:6 Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts
troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees
smote one against another.
DAN 5:7 The king cried aloud to bring in the astrologers, the
Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. And the king spake, and said to the wise
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