| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tanach: Ecclesiastes 5: 4 (5:3) When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for He hath no pleasure in fools; pay that which thou vowest.
Ecclesiastes 5: 5 (5:4) Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.
Ecclesiastes 5: 6 (5:5) Suffer not thy mouth to bring thy flesh into guilt, neither say thou before the messenger, that it was an error; wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thy hands?
Ecclesiastes 5: 7 (5:6) For through the multitude of dreams and vanities there are also many words; but fear thou God.
Ecclesiastes 5: 8 (5:7) If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and the violent perverting of justice and righteousness in the state, marvel not at the matter; for one higher than the high watcheth, and there are higher than they.
Ecclesiastes 5: 9 (5:8) But the profit of a land every way is a king that maketh himself servant to the field.
Ecclesiastes 5: 10 (5:9) He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance, with increase; this also is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 5: 11 (5:10) When goods increase, they are increased that eat them; and what advantage is there to the owner thereof, saving the beholding of them with his eyes?
Ecclesiastes 5: 12 (5:11) Sweet is the sleep of a labouring man, whether he eat little or much; but the satiety of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
The Tanach |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe: in the sequel of this story.
As my new patron, or master, had taken me home to his house, so I
was in hopes that he would take me with him when he went to sea
again, believing that it would some time or other be his fate to be
taken by a Spanish or Portugal man-of-war; and that then I should
be set at liberty. But this hope of mine was soon taken away; for
when he went to sea, he left me on shore to look after his little
garden, and do the common drudgery of slaves about his house; and
when he came home again from his cruise, he ordered me to lie in
the cabin to look after the ship.
Here I meditated nothing but my escape, and what method I might
Robinson Crusoe |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Enemies of Books by William Blades: but several sorts of wood-borers, and others which live upon
vegetable refuse, will attack paper, especially if attracted
in the first place by the real wooden boards in which it was
the custom of the old book-binders to clothe their volumes.
In this belief, some country librarians object to opening the library
windows lest the enemy should fly in from the neighbouring woods,
and rear a brood of worms. Anyone, indeed, who has seen
a hole in a filbert, or a piece of wood riddled by dry rot,
will recognize a similarity of appearance in the channels made
by these insect enemies.
Among the paper-eating species are:--
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