| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Atheist's Mass by Honore de Balzac: "What were you doing at Saint-Sulpice, my dear master?" said he.
"I went to see a priest who has a diseased knee-bone, and to whom
the Duchesse d'Angouleme did me the honor to recommend me," said
Desplein.
The questioner took this defeat for an answer; not so Bianchon.
"Oh, he goes to see damaged knees in church!--He went to mass,"
said the young man to himself.
Bianchon resolved to watch Desplein. He remembered the day and
hour when he had detected him going into Saint-Sulpice, and
resolved to be there again next year on the same day and at the
same hour, to see if he should find him there again. In that case
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: JOB 31:36 Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a
crown to me.
JOB 31:37 I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince
would I go near unto him.
JOB 31:38 If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise
thereof complain;
JOB 31:39 If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have
caused the owners thereof to lose their life:
JOB 31:40 Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of
barley. The words of Job are ended.
JOB 32:1 So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from When the World Shook by H. Rider Haggard: person, may find the record marvelous, and therefore rashly
conclude that because it is beyond experience, it could not be.
It is not a wise deduction, as I think Bickley would admit today,
because without doubt many things are which surpass our extremely
limited experience. However, those who draw the veil from the
Unknown and reveal the New, must expect incredulity, and accept
it without grumbling. Was that not the fate, for instance, of
those who in the Middle Ages, a few hundred years ago,
discovered, or rather rediscovered the mighty movements of those
constellations which served Oro for an almanac?
But the point I want to make is that if the sceptic plays a
When the World Shook |
