| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from An Open Letter on Translating by Dr. Martin Luther: tongues, wanted to clarify and articulate the Greek word
"kecharitomene" that the angel used. And I think that the angel
Gabriel spoke with Mary just as he spoke with Daniel, when he
called him "Chamudoth" and "Ish chamudoth, vir desiriorum", that
is "Dear Daniel." That is the way Gabriel speaks, as we can see
in Daniel. Now if I were to literally translate the words of the
angel, and use the skills of these asses, I would have to
translate it as "Daniel, you man of desires" or "Daniel, you man
of lust". Oh, that would be beautiful German! A German would, of
course, recognize "Man", "Lueste" and "begirunge" as being German
words, although not altogether pure as "lust" and "begir" would be
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: would differ from their former state, in a nearly uniform, though perhaps
extremely slight degree, they would, according to the principles followed
by many palaeontologists, be ranked as new and distinct species.
If then, there be some degree of truth in these remarks, we have no right
to expect to find in our geological formations, an infinite number of those
fine transitional forms, which on my theory assuredly have connected all
the past and present species of the same group into one long and branching
chain of life. We ought only to look for a few links, some more closely,
some more distantly related to each other; and these links, let them be
ever so close, if found in different stages of the same formation, would,
by most palaeontologists, be ranked as distinct species. But I do not
On the Origin of Species |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne: erected which brought the moon within an apparent distance of
two leagues. The honorable secretary of the Gun Club wished
himself to observe the vehicle of his daring friends.
The accumulation of the clouds in the atmosphere prevented all
observation on the 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th of December.
Indeed it was thought that all observations would have to be put
off to the 3d of January in the following year; for the moon
entering its last quarter on the 11th, would then only present
an ever-decreasing portion of her disc, insufficient to allow
of their following the course of the projectile.
At length, to the general satisfaction, a heavy storm cleared
From the Earth to the Moon |
