| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Edingburgh Picturesque Notes by Robert Louis Stevenson: 45 Years except 3 Days, being executed upon the 10th of
OCTOBER 1681, and found the 7th Day of OCTOBER 1726.
That Piece of Ground lay for some Years unlaboured; and
trenching it, the Gardner found them, which affrighted
him the Box was consumed. Mr. SCHAW, the Owner of these
Yards, caused lift them, and lay them upon a Table in his
Summer-house: Mr. SCHAW'S mother was so kind, as to cut
out a Linen-cloth, and cover them. They lay Twelve Days
there, where all had Access to see them. ALEXANDER
TWEEDIE, the foresaid Gardner, said, when dying, There
was a Treasure hid in his Yard, but neither Gold nor
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: resigned.' And the chiefs of Pharaoh's people said, 'Will ye leave
Moses and his people to do evil in the land, and to leave thee and thy
gods?' Said he, 'We will have their sons slain and their women we will
let live, for, verily, we are triumphant over them.'
Said Moses unto his people, 'Ask for aid from God and be patient;
verily, the earth is God's! He gives it for an inheritance to whom
He pleases of His servants, and the future is for those who fear.'
They said, 'We have been hurt before thou didst come to us, and
since thou hast come to us.' Said he, 'It may be that your Lord will
destroy your foe, and will make you succeed him in the earth; and He
will see how ye act.'
The Koran |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen: levers.
"Now, Clarke, make yourself quite comfortable. I have
a couple hours' work before me; I was obliged to leave certain
matters to the last."
Raymond went to the stone slab, and Clarke watched him
drearily as he bent over a row of phials and lit the flame under
the crucible. The doctor had a small hand-lamp, shaded as the
larger one, on a ledge above his apparatus, and Clarke, who sat
in the shadows, looked down at the great shadowy room, wondering
at the bizarre effects of brilliant light and undefined darkness
contrasting with one another. Soon he became conscious of an
The Great God Pan |
