| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: special miracle is required to explain the appearance of the
latter.
The twelve Patriarchs in question are the twelve sons of
Jacob, and the book consists of their supposed deathbed
scenes, in which each patriarch in turn recites his own
(more or less imaginary) life and deeds and gives pious
counsel to his children and successors. It is composed in
a fine and poetic style, and is full of lofty thought, remindful
in scores of passages of the Gospels--words and all--
the coincidences being too striking to be accidental. It
evidently had a deep influence on the authors of the Gospels,
Pagan and Christian Creeds |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King Lear by William Shakespeare: Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow
In our sustaining corn. A century send forth.
Search every acre in the high-grown field
And bring him to our eye. [Exit an Officer.] What can man's
wisdom
In the restoring his bereaved sense?
He that helps him take all my outward worth.
Doct. There is means, madam.
Our foster nurse of nature is repose,
The which he lacks. That to provoke in him
Are many simples operative, whose power
King Lear |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Facino Cane by Honore de Balzac: the sight of the clarionet player, till the thoughts now grown cold in
his face burned hot within my soul.
The fiddle and the flageolet took a deep interest in bottles and
glasses; at the end of a country-dance, they hung their instruments
from a button on their reddish-colored coats, and stretched out their
hands to a little table set in the window recess to hold their liquor
supply. Each time they did so they held out a full glass to the
Italian, who could not reach it for himself because he sat in front of
the table, and each time the Italian thanked them with a friendly nod.
All their movements were made with the precision which always amazes
you so much at the Blind Asylum. You could almost think that they can
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