| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Chouans by Honore de Balzac: frequent expression of excitement. Corentin remarked that she was
wrapped in a mantle of English material, and that the shape of her
hat, foreign no doubt, did not belong to any of the styles called
Greek, which ruled the Parisian fashions of the period. Corentin was
one of those beings who are compelled by the bent of their natures to
suspect evil rather than good, and he instantly doubted the
citizenship of the two travellers. The lady, who, on her side, had
made her observations on the person of Corentin with equal rapidity,
turned to her son with a significant look which may be faithfully
translated into the words: "Who is this queer man? Is he of our
stripe?"
The Chouans |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Essays of Francis Bacon by Francis Bacon: atheists, indeed are hypocrites; which are ever
handling holy things, but without feeling; so as
they must needs be cauterized in the end. The
causes of atheism are: divisions in religion, if they
be many; for any one main division, addeth zeal to
both sides; but many divisions introduce atheism.
Another is, scandal of priests; when it is come to
that which St. Bernard saith, non est jam dicere,
ut populus sic sacerdos; quia nec sic populus ut
sacerdos. A third is, custom of profane scoffing in
holy matters; which doth, by little and little, de-
Essays of Francis Bacon |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: he finished severing the head, placed it in his hellish vat of
pulpy reptile-tissue to preserve it for future experiments, and
proceeded to treat the decapitated body on the operating table.
He injected new blood, joined certain veins, arteries, and nerves
at the headless neck, and closed the ghastly aperture with engrafted
skin from an unidentified specimen which had borne an officer’s
uniform. I knew what he wanted -- to see if this highly organised
body could exhibit, without its head, any of the signs of mental
life which had distinguished Sir Eric Moreland Clapham-Lee. Once
a student of reanimation, this silent trunk was now gruesomely
called upon to exemplify it.
Herbert West: Reanimator |
