| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Facino Cane by Honore de Balzac: back a course of life for this latest scion of a race of condottieri,
tracking down his misfortunes, looking for the reasons of the deep
moral and physical degradation out of which the lately revived sparks
of greatness and nobility shone so much the more brightly. My ideas,
no doubt, were passing through his mind, for all processes of thought-
communications are far more swift, I think, in blind people, because
their blindness compels them to concentrate their attention. I had not
long to wait for proof that we were in sympathy in this way. Facino
Cane left off playing, and came up to me. "Let us go out!" he said;
his tones thrilled through me like an electric shock. I gave him my
arm, and we went.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: GEN 17:18 And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before
thee!
GEN 17:19 And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed;
and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant
with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him.
GEN 17:20 And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed
him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly;
twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.
GEN 17:21 But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah
shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year.
GEN 17:22 And he left off talking with him, and God went up from
King James Bible |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Confessio Amantis by John Gower: Al openly to mannes ije 330
At Avynoun thexperience
Therof hath yove an evidence,
Of that men sen hem so divided.
And yit the cause is noght decided;
Bot it is seid and evere schal,
Betwen tuo Stoles lyth the fal,
Whan that men wenen best to sitte:
In holy cherche of such a slitte
Is for to rewe un to ous alle;
God grante it mote wel befalle 340
Confessio Amantis |
