| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Divine Comedy (translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) by Dante Alighieri: When in conception it was 'We' and 'Our.'
And it began: "Being just and merciful
Am I exalted here unto that glory
Which cannot be exceeded by desire;
And upon earth I left my memory
Such, that the evil-minded people there
Commend it, but continue not the story."
So doth a single heat from many embers
Make itself felt, even as from many loves
Issued a single sound from out that image.
Whence I thereafter: "O perpetual flowers
The Divine Comedy (translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving: clouds floated in the sky, without a breath of air to move them.
The horizon was of a fine golden tint, changing gradually into a
pure apple green, and from that into the deep blue of the mid-
heaven. A slanting ray lingered on the woody crests of the
precipices that overhung some parts of the river, giving greater
depth to the dark gray and purple of their rocky sides. A sloop
was loitering in the distance, dropping slowly down with the
tide, her sail hanging uselessly against the mast; and as the
reflection of the sky gleamed along the still water, it seemed as
if the vessel was suspended in the air.
It was toward evening that Ichabod arrived at the castle of
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: bear witness.'
Said they, 'Was it thou who did this to our gods, O Abraham?' Said
he, 'Nay, it was this largest of them; but ask them, if they can
speak.'
Then they came to themselves and said, 'Verily, ye are the
wrong-doers.' Then they turned upside down again: 'Thou knewest that
these cannot speak.'
Said he, 'Will ye then serve, beside God, what cannot profit you
at all, nor harm you? fie upon you, and what ye serve beside God! have
ye then no sense?'
Said they, 'Burn him, and help your gods, if ye are going to do so!'
The Koran |
