| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: know him any more.
JOB 7:11 Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the
anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
JOB 7:12 Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?
JOB 7:13 When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my
complaints;
JOB 7:14 Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through
visions:
JOB 7:15 So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my
life.
JOB 7:16 I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days
King James Bible |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Oedipus Trilogy by Sophocles: Killed him and so _I_ slew him in a sense.
But, as they stand, the oracles are dead--
Dust, ashes, nothing, dead as Polybus.
JOCASTA
Say, did not I foretell this long ago?
OEDIPUS
Thou didst: but I was misled by my fear.
JOCASTA
Then let I no more weigh upon thy soul.
OEDIPUS
Must I not fear my mother's marriage bed.
Oedipus Trilogy |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Selected Writings of Guy De Maupassant by Guy De Maupassant: solitude a little longer.
One day "Signad" had been played at one of the city theaters. It
was the first time that I had listened to that beautiful,
musical, and fairy-like drama, and I had derived from it the
liveliest pleasures.
I returned home on foot with a light step, my head full of
sonorous phrases, and my mind haunted by delightful visions. It
was night, the dead of night, and so dark that I could hardly
distinguish the broad highway, and consequently I stumbled into
the ditch more than once. From the custom-house, at the barriers,
to my house, was about a mile, perhaps a little more--a leisurely
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