| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Royalty Restored/London Under Charles II by J. Fitzgerald Molloy: And never did a wise one."
Now the king, though the best tempered of men and most lenient of
masters, was naturally wrathful at this verbal character: the
more so because recognising its faithfulness at a glance. He
therefore upbraided Rochester with ingratitude, and banished him
from the court.
Nothing dismayed, my lord retired into the country; but in a
short time, growing weary of pastoral solitude which gave him an
appetite for adventure it could not wholly supply, he returned
privately to town, and assuming a disguise, took up his residence
in the city. Here exercising his characteristic tact, and great
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: cannot perceive, or seize them in their going to and fro? for they
cannot make Him helpless.
Or that He should seize them with a gradual destruction? for,
verily, your Lord is kind, merciful.
Do they not regard whatever thing God has created; its shadow
falls on the right or the left, adoring God and shrinking up?
Whatever is in the heavens and in the earth, beast or angel,
adores God; nor are they big with pride!
They fear their Lord above them, and they do what they are bidden.
And God says, 'Take not to two gods; God is only one; me then do
ye fear!'
The Koran |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lily of the Valley by Honore de Balzac: hot day, more stinging, venomous, and persistent than usual.
He had gone to bed. Henriette and I remained under the acacias; the
children were playing about us, bathed in the setting sun. Our few
exclamatory words revealed the mutuality of the thoughts in which we
rested from our common sufferings. When language failed silence as
faithfully served our souls, which seemed to enter one another without
hindrance; together they luxuriated in the charms of pensive languor,
they met in the undulations of the same dream, they plunged as one
into the river and came out refreshed like two nymphs as closely
united as their souls could wish, but with no earthly tie to bind
them. We entered the unfathomable gulf, we returned to the surface
The Lily of the Valley |
