| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Time Machine by H. G. Wells: another millions of days, and another thousands of millions.
Now, instead of reversing the levers, I had pulled them over so
as to go forward with them, and when I came to look at these
indicators I found that the thousands hand was sweeping round as
fast as the seconds hand of a watch--into futurity.
`As I drove on, a peculiar change crept over the appearance of
things. The palpitating greyness grew darker; then--though I was
still travelling with prodigious velocity--the blinking
succession of day and night, which was usually indicative of a
slower pace, returned, and grew more and more marked. This
puzzled me very much at first. The alternations of night and day
The Time Machine |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: reigned Abijam over Judah.
KI1 15:2 Three years reigned he in Jerusalem. and his mother's name was
Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
KI1 15:3 And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done
before him: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as the
heart of David his father.
KI1 15:4 Nevertheless for David's sake did the LORD his God give him a
lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish
Jerusalem:
KI1 15:5 Because David did that which was right in the eyes of the
LORD, and turned not aside from any thing that he commanded him all the
King James Bible |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Laches by Plato: ought to know only the signs of things that are about to come to pass,
whether death or disease, or loss of property, or victory, or defeat in
war, or in any sort of contest; but to whom the suffering or not suffering
of these things will be for the best, can no more be decided by the
soothsayer than by one who is no soothsayer.
LACHES: I cannot understand what Nicias would be at, Socrates; for he
represents the courageous man as neither a soothsayer, nor a physician, nor
in any other character, unless he means to say that he is a god. My
opinion is that he does not like honestly to confess that he is talking
nonsense, but that he shuffles up and down in order to conceal the
difficulty into which he has got himself. You and I, Socrates, might have
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