| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Lesser Bourgeoisie by Honore de Balzac: governors and auditors.
The Bank council, on hearing of the probable marriage of Celeste to an
honorable employee at the ministry of finance, promised a wedding
present of six thousand francs. This gift, added to twelve thousand
given by Pere Lemprun, and twelve thousand more from the maternal
grandfather, Sieur Galard, market-gardener at Auteuil, brought up the
dowry to thirty thousand francs. Old Galard and Monsieur and Madame
Lemprun were delighted with the marriage. Lemprun himself knew
Mademoiselle Thuillier, and considered her one of the worthiest and
most conscientious women in Paris. Brigitte then, for the first time,
allowed her investments on the Grand-Livre to shine forth, assuring
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: were unjust; verily, in the torment shall ye share!
What! canst thou make the deaf to hear, or guide the blind, or him
who is in obvious error?
Whether then we take thee off we will surely take vengeance on them;
or whether we show thee that which we have promised them; for, verily,
we have power over them.
Say, 'Dost thou hold to what is inspired thee verily, thou art in
the right way, and, verily, it is a reminder to thee and to thy
people, but in the end they shall be asked.
And ask those whom we have sent before thee amongst the prophets,
'Did we make gods beside the Merciful One for them to serve?'
The Koran |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Phaedrus by Plato: rhetoric of the soul--if we would proceed, not empirically but
scientifically, in the one case to impart health and strength by giving
medicine and food, in the other to implant the conviction or virtue which
you desire, by the right application of words and training.
PHAEDRUS: There, Socrates, I suspect that you are right.
SOCRATES: And do you think that you can know the nature of the soul
intelligently without knowing the nature of the whole?
PHAEDRUS: Hippocrates the Asclepiad says that the nature even of the body
can only be understood as a whole. (Compare Charmides.)
SOCRATES: Yes, friend, and he was right:--still, we ought not to be
content with the name of Hippocrates, but to examine and see whether his
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