| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad: We live in the flicker--may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!
But darkness was here yesterday. Imagine the feelings of a commander
of a fine--what d'ye call 'em?--trireme in the Mediterranean,
ordered suddenly to the north; run overland across the Gauls in a hurry;
put in charge of one of these craft the legionaries--a wonderful lot
of handy men they must have been, too--used to build, apparently by
the hundred, in a month or two, if we may believe what we read.
Imagine him here--the very end of the world, a sea the colour of lead,
a sky the colour of smoke, a kind of ship about as rigid as a concertina--
and going up this river with stores, or orders, or what you like.
Sand-banks, marshes, forests, savages,--precious little to eat fit for a
Heart of Darkness |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tanach: Psalms 91: 5 Thou shalt not be afraid of the terror by night, nor of the arrow that flieth by day;
Psalms 91: 6 Of the pestilence that walketh in darkness, nor of the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
Psalms 91: 7 A thousand may fall at Thy side, and ten thousand at Thy right hand; it shall not come nigh thee.
Psalms 91: 8 Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold, and see the recompense of the wicked.
Psalms 91: 9 For thou hast made the LORD who is my refuge, even the Most High, thy habitation.
Psalms 91: 10 There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy tent.
Psalms 91: 11 For He will give His angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.
Psalms 91: 12 They shall bear thee upon their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.
Psalms 91: 13 Thou shalt tread upon the lion and asp; the young lion and the serpent shalt thou trample under feet.
Psalms 91: 14 'Because he hath set his love upon Me, therefore will I deliver him; I will set him on high, because he hath known My name.
Psalms 91: 15 He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will rescue him, and bring him to honour.
The Tanach |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Fables by Robert Louis Stevenson: I offer you my affectionate compliments, and make you heartily
welcome to the islands."
The colonials looked at him askance, and consulted with each other.
"Who can he be?" said the gelding.
"He seems suspiciously civil," said the mare.
"I do not think he can be much account," said the gelding.
"Depend upon it he is only a Kanaka," said the mare.
Then they turned to him.
"Go to the devil!" said the gelding.
"I wonder at your impudence, speaking to persons of our quality!"
cried the mare.
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