| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tanach: Job 8: 8 For inquire, I pray thee, of the former generation, and apply thyself to that which their fathers have searched out--
Job 8: 9 For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow--
Job 8: 10 Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?
Job 8: 11 Can the rush shoot up without mire? Can the reed-grass grow without water?
Job 8: 12 Whilst it is yet in its greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.
Job 8: 13 So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hope of the godless man shall perish;
Job 8: 14 Whose confidence is gossamer, and whose trust is a spider's web.
Job 8: 15 He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand; he shall hold fast thereby, but it shall not endure.
Job 8: 16 He is green before the sun, and his shoots go forth over his garden.
Job 8: 17 His roots are wrapped about the heap, he beholdeth the place of stones.
Job 8: 18 If he be destroyed from his place, then it shall deny him: 'I have not seen thee.'
The Tanach |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin: bad as that from a nettle, but more like that caused by the
Physalia or Portuguese man-of-war. Little red spots were
produced on the tender skin of the arm, which appeared as if
they would have formed watery pustules, but did not. M.
Quoy mentions this case of the Millepora; and I have heard
of stinging corals in the West Indies. Many marine animals
seem to have this power of stinging: besides the Portuguese
man-of-war, many jelly-fish, and the Aplysia or sea-slug
of the Cape de Verd Islands, it is stated in the voyage
of the Astrolabe, that an Actinia or sea-anemone, as well as
a flexible coralline allied to Sertularia, both possess this
The Voyage of the Beagle |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Simple Soul by Gustave Flaubert: She looked at him in despair and implored the Holy Ghost, and it was
this way that she contracted the idolatrous habit of saying her
prayers kneeling in front of the bird. Sometimes the sun fell through
the window on his glass eye, and lighted a spark in it which sent
Felicite into ecstasy.
Her mistress had left her an income of three hundred and eighty
francs. The garden supplied her with vegetables. As for clothes, she
had enough to last her till the end of her days, and she economised on
the light by going to bed at dusk.
She rarely went out, in order to avoid passing in front of the second-
hand dealer's shop where there was some of the old furniture. Since
A Simple Soul |
