| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Rape of Lucrece by William Shakespeare: Thou loathed in their shame, they in thy pride:
The lesser thing should not the greater hide;
The cedar stoops not to the base shrub's foot,
But low shrubs whither at the cedar's root.
'So let thy thoughts, low vassals to thy state'--
'No more,' quoth he; 'by heaven, I will not hear thee:
Yield to my love; if not, enforced hate,
Instead of love's coy touch, shall rudely tear thee;
That done, despitefully I mean to bear thee
Unto the base bed of some rascal groom,
To be thy partner in this shameful doom.'
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Life of the Spider by J. Henri Fabre: him in the hollow of their hands and warm him with their breath.
The spasms become more frequent. A gasp proclaims that all is
over. The bird is dead.
There was a certain coolness among us at the evening-meal. I read
mute reproaches, because of my experiment, in the eyes of my home-
circle; I read an unspoken accusation of cruelty all around me.
The death of the unfortunate Sparrow had saddened the whole family.
I myself was not without some remorse of conscience: the poor
result achieved seemed to me too dearly bought. I am not made of
the stuff of those who, without turning a hair, rip up live Dogs to
find out nothing in particular.
The Life of the Spider |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: torment shall they dwell for aye. But had they believed in God and the
prophet, and what was revealed to him, they had not taken these for
their patrons; but many of them are evildoers.
Thou wilt surely find that the strongest in enmity against those who
believe are the Jews and the idolaters; and thou wilt find the nearest
in love to those who believe to be those who say, 'We are Christians;'
that is because there are amongst them priests and monks, and
because they are not proud.
And when they hear what has been revealed to the prophet, you will
see their eyes gush with tears at what they recognise as truth
therein; and they will say, 'O our Lord! we believe, so write us
The Koran |
