| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Macbeth by William Shakespeare: Lizards legge, and Howlets wing:
For a Charme of powrefull trouble,
Like a Hell-broth, boyle and bubble
All. Double, double, toyle and trouble,
Fire burne, and Cauldron bubble
3 Scale of Dragon, Tooth of Wolfe,
Witches Mummey, Maw, and Gulfe
Of the rauin'd salt Sea sharke:
Roote of Hemlocke, digg'd i'th' darke:
Liuer of Blaspheming Iew,
Gall of Goate, and Slippes of Yew,
Macbeth |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Life of the Spider by J. Henri Fabre: other hemisphere, through which the youngsters will go out, is less
well fortified: its only wrapper is the texture spun over the eggs
immediately after they were laid.
Inside, there is nothing but the eggs: no mattress, no soft
eiderdown, like that of the Epeirae. The Lycosa, indeed, has no
need to guard her eggs against the inclemencies of the winter, for
the hatching will take place long before the cold weather comes.
Similarly, the Thomisus, with her early brood, takes good care not
to incur useless expenditure: she gives her eggs, for their
protection, a simple purse of satin.
The work of spinning, followed by that of tearing, is continued for
The Life of the Spider |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: "do you dare to bandy words with me? I know that you have
discovered some treasure. Tell me upon the instant where it is;
for the half of it, by the laws of the land, belongs to me, and I
will have it."
At the king's words Aben Hassen the Fool fell on his knees.
"Sire," said he, "I will tell you all the truth. There is a demon
named Zadok--a monster as black as a coal. He is my slave, and
it is he that brings me all the treasure that I enjoy." The king
thought nothing else than that Aben Hassen the Fool was trying to
deceive him. He laughed; he was very angry. "What," cried he, "do
you amuse me by such an absurd and unbelievable tale? Now I am
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