| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pericles by William Shakespeare: Upon a courser, whose delightful steps
Shall make the gazer joy to see him tread.
Only, my friend, I yet am unprovided
Of a pair of bases.
SECOND FISHERMAN.
We'll sure provide: thou shalt have my best gown to make thee a
pair; and I'll bring thee to the court myself.
PERICLES.
Then honour be but a goal to my will,
This day I'll rise, or else add ill to ill.
[Exeunt.]
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: this is nothing but a fiction! Has a reminder come down upon him
from amongst us?' nay, they are in doubt concerning my reminder;
nay, they have not yet tasted of my torment!
Have they the treasures of the mercy of thy mighty Lord, the
giver? or have they the kingdom of the heavens and of the earth, and
what is between the two?- then let them climb up the ropes thereof.
Any host whatever of the confederates shall there be routed.
Before them did Noah's people, and 'Ad, and Pharaoh of the stakes
call the apostles liars; and Thamud and the people of Lot, and the
fellows of the Grove, they were the confederates too.
They all did naught but call the apostles liars, and just was the
The Koran |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen: "Did you believe him?"
"I did at the time, but I don't now. He heard what I
had to say with a good deal of indifference, till I showed him
the portrait. It was then that he was seized with the attack of
which I spoke. He looked ghastly, I assure you."
"Then he must have seen the woman before. But there
might be another explanation; it might have been the name, and
not the face, which was familiar to him. What do you think?"
"I couldn't say. To the best of my belief it was after
turning the portrait in his hands that he nearly dropped from
the chair. The name, you know, was written on the back."
The Great God Pan |
