| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare: Take you your instrument, play you the whiles;
His lecture will be done ere you have tun'd.
HORTENSIO.
You'll leave his lecture when I am in tune?
[Retires.]
LUCENTIO.
That will be never: tune your instrument.
BIANCA.
Where left we last?
LUCENTIO.
Here, madam:--
The Taming of the Shrew |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tanach: Numbers 10: 16 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Zebulun was Eliab the son of Helon.
Numbers 10: 17 And the tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, who bore the tabernacle, set forward.
Numbers 10: 18 And the standard of the camp of Reuben set forward according to their hosts; and over his host was Elizur the son of Shedeur.
Numbers 10: 19 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Simeon was Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
Numbers 10: 20 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Gad was Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
Numbers 10: 21 And the Kohathites the bearers of the sanctuary set forward, that the tabernacle might be set up against their coming.
Numbers 10: 22 And the standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set forward according to their hosts; and over his host was Elishama the son of Ammihud.
Numbers 10: 23 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Manasseh was Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
Numbers 10: 24 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Benjamin was Abidan the son of Gideoni.
Numbers 10: 25 And the standard of the camp of the children of Dan, which was the rearward of all the camps, set forward according to their hosts; and over his host was Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
The Tanach |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H. B. Irving: after his release from prison. Not content with this, the
authorities determined to put Butler on trial on two charges of
burglary and one of highway robbery, committed since his return
to the colony. To one charge of burglary, that of breaking into
a hairdresser's shop and stealing a wig, some razors and a little
money, Butler pleaded guilty.
But the charge of highway robbery, which bore a singular
resemblance to the final catastrophe in Queensland, he resisted
to the utmost, and showed that his experience in the Supreme
Court at Dunedin had not been lost on him. At half-past six one
evening in a suburb of Melbourne an elderly gentleman found
A Book of Remarkable Criminals |
