| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: the next, and so on."
The alarm, too, of those hounds for ever at its heels pursuing
combines with everything[46] to rob the creature of all prescience; so
that for this reason alone it will run its head into a hundred dangers
unawares, and fall into the toils. If it held on its course
uphill,[47] it would seldom meet with such a fate; but now, through
its propensity to circle round and its attachment to the place where
it was born and bred, it courts destruction. Owing to its speed it is
not often overtaken by the hounds by fair hunting.[48] When caught, it
is the victim of a misfortune alien to its physical nature.
[46] {meta touton}, sc. "with these other causes"; al. "with the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tanach: Deuteronomy 21: 12 then thou shalt bring her home to thy house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails;
Deuteronomy 21: 13 and she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thy house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month; and after that thou mayest go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife.
Deuteronomy 21: 14 And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all for money, thou shalt not deal with her as a slave, because thou hast humbled her.
Deuteronomy 21: 15 If a man have two wives, the one beloved, and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the first-born son be hers that was hated; Deuteronomy 21: 16 then it shall be, in the day that he causeth his sons to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved the first-born before the son of the hated, who is the first-born;
Deuteronomy 21: 17 but he shall acknowledge the first-born, the son of the hated, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath; for he is the first-fruits of his strength, the right of the first-born is his.
Deuteronomy 21: 18 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, that will not hearken to the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and though they chasten him, will not hearken unto them; 
The Tanach |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King Lear by William Shakespeare: Doth Lear walk thus? speak thus? Where are his eyes?
Either his notion weakens, his discernings
Are lethargied- Ha! waking? 'Tis not so!
Who is it that can tell me who I am?
Fool. Lear's shadow.
Lear. I would learn that; for, by the marks of sovereignty,
Knowledge, and reason, I should be false persuaded
I had daughters.
Fool. Which they will make an obedient father.
Lear. Your name, fair gentlewoman?
Gon. This admiration, sir, is much o' th' savour
King Lear |
