| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from La Grande Breteche by Honore de Balzac: woman in her vast chateau. I heard not the least sound, I did not
perceive the movement which the sufferer's breathing ought to have
given to the sheets that covered her, and I stood motionless, absorbed
in looking at her in a sort of stupor. In fancy I am there still. At
last her large eyes moved; she tried to raise her right hand, but it
fell back on the bed, and she uttered these words, which came like a
breath, for her voice was no longer a voice: "I have waited for you
with the greatest impatience." A bright flush rose to her cheeks. It
was a great effort to her to speak.
" ' "Madame," I began. She signed to me to be silent. At that moment
the old housekeeper rose and said in my ear, "Do not speak; Madame la
La Grande Breteche |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: those who do good with good! those who shun great sins and
iniquities,-all but venial faults,-verily, thy Lord is of ample
forgiveness; He knows best about you, when He produced you from the
earth, and when ye were embryos in the wombs of your mothers.
Make not yourselves out, then to be pure; He knows best who it is
that fears.
Hast thou considered him who turns his back? who gives but little
and then stops? Has he then the knowledge of the unseen, so that he
can see?
Has he not been informed of what is in the pages of Moses and
Abraham who fulfilled his word? that no burdened soul shall bear the
The Koran |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce: "Naught, for a season, shall your comfort mar,
Not even the memory of who you are."
Throughout eternal space dread silence fell;
Heaven trembled as Compassion entered Hell.
"As long, sweet demon, let my respite be
As, governing down here, I'd respite thee."
"As long, poor soul, as any of the pack
You thrust from jail consumed in getting back."
A genial chill affected Altgeld's hide
While they were turning him on t'other side.
Joel Spate Woop
The Devil's Dictionary |
