| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Life of the Spider by J. Henri Fabre: caught in the overhead rigging fall. This surface, a domain
subject to unlimited shocks, is never strong enough, especially as
it is exposed to the additional burden of little bits of plaster
loosened from the wall. The owner is constantly working at it; she
adds a new layer nightly.
Every time that she issues from her tubular retreat or returns to
it, she fixes the thread that hangs behind her upon the road
covered. As evidence of this work, we have the direction of the
surface-lines, all of which, whether straight or winding, according
to the fancies that guide the Spider's path, converge upon the
entrance of the tube. Each step taken, beyond a doubt, adds a
The Life of the Spider |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tanach: Hosea 7: 16 They return, but not upwards; they are become like a deceitful bow; their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue; this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.
Hosea 8: 1 Set the horn to thy mouth. As a vulture he cometh against the house of the LORD; because they have transgressed My covenant, and trespassed against My law.
Hosea 8: 2 Will they cry unto Me: 'My God, we Israel know Thee'?
Hosea 8: 3 Israel hath cast off that which is good; the enemy shall pursue him.
Hosea 8: 4 They have set up kings, but not from Me, they have made princes, and I knew it not; of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off.
Hosea 8: 5 Thy calf, O Samaria, is cast off; Mine anger is kindled against them; how long will it be ere they attain to innocency?
Hosea 8: 6 For from Israel is even this: the craftsman made it, and it is no God; yea, the calf of Samaria shall be broken in shivers.
Hosea 8: 7 For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind; it hath no stalk, the bud that shall yield no meal; if so be it yield, strangers shall swallow it up.
Hosea 8: 8 Israel is swallowed up; now are they become among the nations as a vessel wherein is no value.
Hosea 8: 9 For they are gone up to Assyria, like a wild ass alone by himself; Ephraim hath hired lovers.
The Tanach |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Summer by Edith Wharton: the minister's house; and when you come back home
you'll come as Mrs. Royall."
His voice had the grave persuasive accent that had
moved his hearers at the Home Week festival; she had a
sense of depths of mournful tolerance under that easy
tone. Her whole body began to tremble with the dread
of her own weakness.
"Oh, I can't----" she burst out desperately.
"Can't what?"
She herself did not know: she was not sure if she was
rejecting what he offered, or already struggling
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