| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Droll Stories, V. 1 by Honore de Balzac: establishment of his prelate, a man of good morals and great science.
Philippe de Mala, as he was called, resolved to behave well and
worthily to serve his protector, but he saw in this mysterious Council
many men leading a dissolute life and yet not making less, nay--
gaining more indulgences, gold crowns and benefices than all the other
virtuous and well-behaved ones. Now during one night--dangerous to his
virtue--the devil whispered into his ear that he should live more
luxuriously, since every one sucked the breasts of our Holy Mother
Church and yet they were not drained, a miracle which proved beyond
doubt the existence of God. And the priest of Touraine did not
disappoint the devil. He promised to feast himself, to eat his
Droll Stories, V. 1 |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: thousand times daily, had never known the joys of love. Eugene
was certainly (to make use of his own expression) one of the
nicest young men that he had ever seen, and some prophetic
instinct seemed to tell him that Eugene was to give her the
happiness which had not been hers. These were the beginnings of a
friendship that grew up between the old man and his neighbor; but
for this friendship the catastrophe of the drama must have
remained a mystery.
The affection with which Father Goriot regarded Eugene, by whom
he seated himself at breakfast, the change in Goriot's face,
which as a rule, looked as expressionless as a plaster cast, and
Father Goriot |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: forth from out the fire.
O ye folk! eat of what is in the earth, things lawful and things
good, and follow not the footsteps of Satan, verily, to you he is an
open foe. He does but bid you evil and sin, and that ye should speak
against God what ye do not know.
When it is said to them, 'Follow what God has revealed,' they say,
'Nay, we will follow what we found our fathers agreed upon.' What! and
though their fathers had no sense at all or guidance-?
The likeness of those who misbelieve is as the likeness of him who
shouts to that which hears him not, save only a call and a cry;
deafness, dumbness, blindness, and they shall not understand.
The Koran |
