| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville: VOBIS! that is to say, 'Peace to you!' And on that mount appeared
Christ to Saint Thomas the apostle and bade him assay his wounds;
and then believed he first, and said, DOMINUS MEUS ET DEUS MEUS!
that is to say 'My Lord and my God!' In the same church, beside
the altar, were all the apostles on Whitsunday, when the Holy Ghost
descended on them in likeness of fire. And there made our Lord his
pasque with his disciples. And there slept Saint John the
evangelist upon the breast of our Lord Jesu Christ, and saw
sleeping many heavenly privities.
Mount Sion is within the city, and it is a little higher than the
other side of the city; and the city is stronger on that side than
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Virginibus Puerisque by Robert Louis Stevenson: by goblins as he went; and, curfew being struck, he found no
light but that he travelled in throughout the township.
Closely following on this epoch of migratory lanthorns in
a world of extinction, came the era of oil-lights, hard to
kindle, easy to extinguish, pale and wavering in the hour of
their endurance. Rudely puffed the winds of heaven; roguishly
clomb up the all-destructive urchin; and, lo! in a moment
night re-established her void empire, and the cit groped along
the wall, suppered but bedless, occult from guidance, and
sorrily wading in the kennels. As if gamesome winds and
gamesome youths were not sufficient, it was the habit to sling
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: so as not to be overheard by his companions, "the man was our
devil major, who has tricks enough to supply the lack of a
hundred such as Dame Laneham; and the woman, if you please, is
the sage person whose assistance is most particularly necessary
to our distressed comrade."
"Oh, what! you have got the wise woman, then?" said Varney.
"Why, truly, she rode like one bound to a place where she was
needed. And you have a spare limb of Satan, besides, to supply
the place of Mistress Laneham?"
"Ay, sir," said the boy; "they are not so scarce in this world as
your honour's virtuous eminence would suppose. This master-fiend
Kenilworth |
