| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Gambara by Honore de Balzac: him turn a little pale.
"That nothing may be lacking to this composition," he went on, "the
great artist has generously added the only /buffo/ duet permissible
for a devil: that in which he tempts the unhappy troubadour. The
composer has set jocosity side by side with horror--a jocosity in
which he mocks at the only realism he had allowed himself amid the
sublime imaginings of his work--the pure calm love of Alice and
Raimbaut; and their life is overshadowed by the forecast of evil.
"None but a lofty soul can feel the noble style of these /buffo/ airs;
they have neither the superabundant frivolity of Italian music nor the
vulgar accent of French commonplace; rather have they the majesty of
Gambara |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.
DEU 9:16 And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the LORD your
God, and had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of
the way which the LORD had commanded you.
DEU 9:17 And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands,
and brake them before your eyes.
DEU 9:18 And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days
and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of
all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the
LORD, to provoke him to anger.
DEU 9:19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith
King James Bible |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lemorne Versus Huell by Elizabeth Drew Stoddard: rolling up from the ocean, and to represent me. Whether I went
alone or not, the coachman was ordered to drive a certain round;
after that I could extend the ride in whatever direction I pleased,
but I always said, "Anywhere, William." One afternoon, which
happened to be a bright one, I was riding on the road which led to
the glen, when I heard the screaming of a flock of geese which were
waddling across the path in front of the horses. I started, for I
was asleep probably, and, looking forward, saw the Uxbridge
carriage, filled with ladies and children, coming toward me; and by
it rode a gentleman on horseback. His horse was rearing among the
hissing geese, but neither horse nor geese appeared to engage him;
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