| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen: Silet per diem universus, nec sine horrore secretus
est; lucet nocturnis ignibus, chorus Aegipanum undique
personatur: audiuntur et cantus tibiarum, et tinnitus cymbalorum
per oram maritimam.
On the third page was a design which made Villiers
start and look up at Austin; he was gazing abstractedly out of
the window. Villiers turned page after page, absorbed, in spite
of himself, in the frightful Walpurgis Night of evil, strange
monstrous evil, that the dead artist had set forth in hard black
and white. The figures of Fauns and Satyrs and Aegipans danced
before his eyes, the darkness of the thicket, the dance on the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from An Unsocial Socialist by George Bernard Shaw: the pockets of the poor as well? Why should you be su'prised at
wot 'appens every day?"
"Had you any money of your own about you at the time?"
"Where could the like of me get money?--asking pardon for making
so bold as to catechise your ladyship."
"I don't know where you could get it," said Miss Wilson testily;
"I ask you, had you any?"
"Well, lady, I disremember. I will not impose upon you. I
disremember."
"Then you've made a mistake," said Miss Wilson, handing him back
his money. "Here. If it is not yours, it is not ours; so you had
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tanach: Isaiah 7: 7 thus saith the Lord GOD: it shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.
Isaiah 7: 8 For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people;
Isaiah 7: 9 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If ye will not have faith, surely ye shall not be established.'
Isaiah 7: 10 And the LORD spoke again unto Ahaz, saying:
Isaiah 7: 11 'Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God: ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.'
Isaiah 7: 12 But Ahaz said: 'I will not ask, neither will I try the LORD.'
Isaiah 7: 13 And he said: 'Hear ye now, O house of David: Is it a small thing for you to weary men, that ye will weary my God also?
Isaiah 7: 14 Therefore the Lord Himself shall give you a sign: behold, the young woman shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
Isaiah 7: 15 Curd and honey shall he eat, when he knoweth to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
Isaiah 7: 16 Yea, before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land whose two kings thou hast a horror of shall be forsaken.
Isaiah 7: 17 The LORD shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father's house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria.'
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