| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: resigned.' And the chiefs of Pharaoh's people said, 'Will ye leave
Moses and his people to do evil in the land, and to leave thee and thy
gods?' Said he, 'We will have their sons slain and their women we will
let live, for, verily, we are triumphant over them.'
Said Moses unto his people, 'Ask for aid from God and be patient;
verily, the earth is God's! He gives it for an inheritance to whom
He pleases of His servants, and the future is for those who fear.'
They said, 'We have been hurt before thou didst come to us, and
since thou hast come to us.' Said he, 'It may be that your Lord will
destroy your foe, and will make you succeed him in the earth; and He
will see how ye act.'
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from 'Twixt Land & Sea by Joseph Conrad: "What do you mean? Just now?"
"No, on the passage. Weeks ago. Thirty-nine south. When I say a
man - "
"Fit of temper," I suggested, confidently.
The shadowy, dark head, like mine, seemed to nod imperceptibly
above the ghostly grey of my sleeping-suit. It was, in the night,
as though I had been faced by my own reflection in the depths of a
sombre and immense mirror.
"A pretty thing to have to own up to for a Conway boy," murmured my
double, distinctly.
"You're a Conway boy?"
'Twixt Land & Sea |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Heroes by Charles Kingsley: golden fleece; and whosoever shrank back, or disobeyed, or
turned traitor to his vow, then justice should minister
against him, and the Erinnues who track guilty men.
Then Jason lighted the pile, and burnt the carcase of the
bull; and they went to their ship and sailed eastward, like
men who have a work to do; and the place from which they went
was called Aphetai, the sailing-place, from that day forth.
Three thousand years and more they sailed away, into the
unknown Eastern seas; and great nations have come and gone
since then, and many a storm has swept the earth; and many a
mighty armament, to which ARGO would be but one small boat;
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