| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad: stood sombre and pensive over the sparkling water. The breeze
died away into a breathless calm.
Seamanlike, the two officers tramped measuredly up and down
without exchanging a word. The loose planks rattled rhythmically
under their steps with obstrusive dry sound in the perfect
silence of the night. As they were wheeling round again the
younger man stood attentive.
"Did you hear that?" he asked.
"No!" said the other. "Hear what?"
"I thought I heard a cry. Ever so faint. Seemed a woman's
voice. In that other house. Ah! Again! Hear it?"
Almayer's Folly |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Macbeth by William Shakespeare: The Rauen himselfe is hoarse,
That croakes the fatall entrance of Duncan
Vnder my Battlements. Come you Spirits,
That tend on mortall thoughts, vnsex me here,
And fill me from the Crowne to the Toe, top-full
Of direst Crueltie: make thick my blood,
Stop vp th' accesse, and passage to Remorse,
That no compunctious visitings of Nature
Shake my fell purpose, nor keepe peace betweene
Th' effect, and hit. Come to my Womans Brests,
And take my Milke for Gall, you murth'ring Ministers,
Macbeth |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tanach: 1_Kings 13: 1 And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of the LORD unto Beth-el; and Jeroboam was standing by the altar to offer.
1_Kings 13: 2 And he cried against the altar by the word of the LORD, and said: 'O altar, altar, thus saith the LORD: Behold, a son shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he sacrifice the priests of the high places that offer upon thee, and men's bones shall they burn upon thee.'
1_Kings 13: 3 And he gave a sign the same day saying: 'This is the sign which the LORD hath spoken: Behold, the altar shall be rent, and the ashes that are upon it shall be poured out.'
1_Kings 13: 4 And it came to pass, when the king heard the saying of the man of God, which he cried against the altar in Beth-el, that Jeroboam put forth his hand from the altar, saying: 'Lay hold on him.' And his hand, which he put forth against him, dried up, so that he could not draw it back to him.
1_Kings 13: 5 The altar also was rent, and the ashes poured out from the altar, according to the sign which the man of God had given by the word of the LORD.
1_Kings 13: 6 And the king answered and said unto the man of God: 'Entreat now the favour of the LORD thy God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored me.' And the man of God entreated the LORD, and the king's hand was restored him, and became as it was before.
1_Kings 13: 7 And the king said unto the man of God: 'Come home with me, and refresh thyself, and I will give thee a reward.'
1_Kings 13: 8 And the man of God said unto the king: 'If thou wilt give me half thy house, I will not go in with thee, neither will I eat bread nor drink water in this place.
The Tanach |
