| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H. B. Irving: Marie, M. Boyer made her his wife. Madame Boyer was at heart a
woman of ardent and voluptuous passions that only wanted
opportunity to become careless in their gratification. Her
husband's long illness gave her such an opportunity. At the time
of his death she was carrying on an intrigue with a bookseller's
assistant, Leon Vitalis, a young man of twenty-one. Her bed-
ridden husband, ignorant of her infidelity, accepted gratefully
the help of Vitalis, whom his wife described as a relative, in
the regulation of his affairs. At length the unsuspecting Boyer
died. The night of his death Madame Boyer spent with her lover.
The mother had never felt any great affection for her only child.
A Book of Remarkable Criminals |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Odyssey by Homer: bow about me and bade him lead me again by the way that he
came. But he caught me with both hands, and by my knees he
besought me, and bewailing him spake to me winged words:
'"Lead me not thither against my will, oh fosterling of
Zeus, but leave me here! For well I know thou shalt thyself
return no more, nor bring any one of all thy fellowship;
nay, let us flee the swifter with those that be here, for
even yet may we escape the evil day."
'On this wise he spake, but I answered him, saying:
"Eurylochus, abide for thy part here in this place, eating
and drinking by the black hollow ship: but I will go forth,
The Odyssey |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: wretchedness of soul;- verily, your Lord is kind and merciful.
And horses too, and mules, and asses, for you to ride upon and for
an ornament.- He creates also what ye know not of. God's it is to show
the path; from it some turn aside: but had He pleased He would have
guided you one and all.
He it is who sends down water from the sky, whence ye have drink,
and whence the trees grow whereby ye feed your flocks.
He makes the corn to grow, and the olives, and the palms, and the
grapes, and some of every fruit;- verily, in that is a sign unto a
people who reflect.
And He subjected to you the night and the day, and the sun, and
The Koran |
