| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: unmercifully murdering the servants of God and lovers of
righteousness, who have done thee no wrong, and seek not to share
with thee in present goods, nor are ambitious to rob thee of
them?"
Said the king, "I do well to punish you, ye clever misleaders of
the folk, because ye deceive all men, counselling them to abstain
from the enjoyments of life; and because, instead of the sweets
of life and the allures of appetite and pleasure, ye constrain
them to choose the rough, filthy and squalid way, and preach that
they should render to Jesus the honour due unto the gods.
Accordingly, in order that the people may not follow your deceits
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Complete Angler by Izaak Walton: you like it, lend it you, to have two or three made by it; for they be
easily carried about an angler, and be of excellent use: for note, that a
large Trout will come as fiercely at a minnow as the highest-mettled
hawk doth seize on a partridge, or a greyhound on a hare. I have been
told that one hundred and sixty minnows have been found in a Trout's
belly: either the Trout had devoured so many, or the miller that gave it a
friend of mine had forced them down his throat after he had taken him.
Now for Flies; which is the third bait wherewith Trouts are usually
taken. You are to know, that there are so many sorts of flies as there be
of fruits: I will name you but some of them; as the dun-fly, the stone-
fly, the red-fly, the moor-fly, the tawny-fly, the shell-fly, the cloudy or
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Albert Savarus by Honore de Balzac: (nee Princesse Soderini)
At Belgirate,
Lago Maggiore, Italy.
In her eyes this direction blazed as the words /Mene/, /Tekel/,
/Upharsin/, did in the eyes of Belshazzar. After concealing the
letter, Rosalie went downstairs to accompany her mother to Madame de
Chavoncourt's; and as long as the endless evening lasted, she was
tormented by remorse and scruples. She had already felt shame at
having violated the secrecy of Albert's letter to Leopold; she had
several times asked herself whether, if he knew of her crime, infamous
inasmuch as it necessarily goes unpunished, the high-minded Albert
Albert Savarus |
