| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tanach: Genesis 26: 10 And Abimelech said: 'What is this thou hast done unto us? one of the people might easily have lain with thy wife, and thou wouldest have brought guiltiness upon us.'
Genesis 26: 11 And Abimelech charged all the people, saying: 'He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.'
Genesis 26: 12 And Isaac sowed in that land, and found in the same year a hundred-fold; and the LORD blessed him.
Genesis 26: 13 And the man waxed great, and grew more and more until he became very great.
Genesis 26: 14 And he had possessions of flocks, and possessions of herds, and a great household; and the Philistines envied him.
Genesis 26: 15 Now all the wells which his father's servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth.
Genesis 26: 16 And Abimelech said unto Isaac: 'Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we.'
Genesis 26: 17 And Isaac departed thence, and encamped in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.
Genesis 26: 18 And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham; and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.
Genesis 26: 19 And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of living water.
The Tanach |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Virginibus Puerisque by Robert Louis Stevenson: the best of men, but they are the stuff out of which adroit
and capable women manufacture the best of husbands. It is to
be noticed that those who have loved once or twice already are
so much the better educated to a woman's hand; the bright boy
of fiction is an odd and most uncomfortable mixture of shyness
and coarseness, and needs a deal of civilising. Lastly (and
this is, perhaps, the golden rule), no woman should marry a
teetotaller, or a man who does not smoke. It is not for
nothing that this "ignoble tabagie," as Michelet calls it,
spreads over all the world. Michelet rails against it because
it renders you happy apart from thought or work; to provident
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde: and sold, and bartered away. It can be poisoned, or made perfect.
There is a soul in each one of us. I know it."
"Do you feel quite sure of that, Dorian?"
"Quite sure."
"Ah! then it must be an illusion. The things one feels
absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality
of faith, and the lesson of romance. How grave you are!
Don't be so serious. What have you or I to do with the superstitions
of our age? No: we have given up our belief in the soul.
Play me something. Play me a nocturne, Dorian, and, as you play,
tell me, in a low voice, how you have kept your youth.
The Picture of Dorian Gray |
