| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: They shall say, 'Did not your apostles come to you with manifest
signs?' They shall say, 'Yea!' They shall say, 'Then, call!'-but the
call of the misbelievers is only in error.
Verily, we will help our apostles, and those who believe, in the
life of this world and on the day when the witnesses shall stand up:
the day when their excuse shall not avail the unjust; but for them
is the curse, and for them is an evil abode.
And we did give Moses the guidance; and we made the children of
Israel to inherit the Book, as a guidance and a reminder to those
endowed with minds.
Be thou patient, then; verily, God's promise is true: and ask thou
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Charmides by Plato: I should seem to have overlooked it. Dr. Henry Jackson, of Trinity
College, Cambridge, in a series of articles which he has contributed to the
Journal of Philology, has put forward an entirely new explanation of the
Platonic 'Ideas.' He supposes that in the mind of Plato they took, at
different times in his life, two essentially different forms:--an earlier
one which is found chiefly in the Republic and the Phaedo, and a later,
which appears in the Theaetetus, Philebus, Sophist, Politicus, Parmenides,
Timaeus. In the first stage of his philosophy Plato attributed Ideas to
all things, at any rate to all things which have classes or common notions:
these he supposed to exist only by participation in them. In the later
Dialogues he no longer included in them manufactured articles and ideas of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Prince of Bohemia by Honore de Balzac: and Taglioni, all of them thin, brown, and plain--could only redeem
their physical defects by their genius. Tullia, still in the height of
her glory, retired before younger and cleverer dancers; she did
wisely. She was an aristocrat; she had scarcely stooped below the
noblesse in her /liaisons/; she declined to dip her ankles in the
troubled waters of July. Insolent and beautiful as she was, Claudine
possessed handsome souvenirs, but very little ready money; still, her
jewels were magnificent, and she had as fine furniture as any one in
Paris.
"On quitting the stage when she, forgotten to-day, was yet in the
height of her fame, one thought possessed her--she meant du Bruel to
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