| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: had prevented us from burying the thing. It would have been better
if we could have known it was underground.
After that experience
West had dropped his researches for some time; but as the zeal
of the born scientist slowly returned, he again became importunate
with the college faculty, pleading for the use of the dissecting-room
and of fresh human specimens for the work he regarded as so overwhelmingly
important. His pleas, however, were wholly in vain; for the decision
of Dr. Halsey was inflexible, and the other professors all endorsed
the verdict of their leader. In the radical theory of reanimation
they saw nothing but the immature vagaries of a youthful enthusiast
Herbert West: Reanimator |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Crito by Plato: people to life, if they were able, as they are to put them to death--and
with as little reason. But now, since the argument has thus far prevailed,
the only question which remains to be considered is, whether we shall do
rightly either in escaping or in suffering others to aid in our escape and
paying them in money and thanks, or whether in reality we shall not do
rightly; and if the latter, then death or any other calamity which may
ensue on my remaining here must not be allowed to enter into the
calculation.
CRITO: I think that you are right, Socrates; how then shall we proceed?
SOCRATES: Let us consider the matter together, and do you either refute me
if you can, and I will be convinced; or else cease, my dear friend, from
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tanach: Ezra 5: 9 Then asked we those elders, and said unto them thus: Who gave you a decree to build this house, and to finish this wall?
Ezra 5: 10 We asked them their names also, to announce to thee, that we might write the names of the men that were at the head of them.
Ezra 5: 11 And thus they returned us answer, saying: We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and build the house that was builded these many years ago, which a great king of Israel builded and finished.
Ezra 5: 12 But because that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven, He gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into Babylon.
Ezra 5: 13 But in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, Cyrus the king made a decree to build this house of God.
Ezra 5: 14 And the gold and silver vessels also of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple that was in Jerusalem, and brought them into the temple of Babylon, those did Cyrus the king take out of the temple of Babylon, and they were delivered unto one whose name was Sheshbazzar, whom he had made governor;
Ezra 5: 15 and he said unto him: Take these vessels, go, put them in the temple that is in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be builded in its place.
Ezra 5: 16 Then came the same Sheshbazzar, and laid the foundations of the house of God which is in Jerusalem; and since that time even until now hath it been in building, and yet it is not complete 
The Tanach |
