| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells: when she came to him.
"Shut that door, please," he said, and felt the request had
just that flavour of portentousness he wished to avoid.
"What is it? " she asked.
"I wanted to talk to you--about some things. I've done
something rather serious to-day. I've made an important
decision."
Her face became anxious. "What do you mean?" she asked.
"You see," he said, leaning upon the mantelshelf and looking
down at the gas flames, "I've never thought that we should all
have to live in this crowded house for long."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Seraphita by Honore de Balzac: as the manufacturer of the machinery of the worlds, is it not as
ridiculous to call Him God as to call the slave who turns the
grindstone a Roman citizen? Besides, another difficulty, as insoluble
to this supreme human reason as it is to God, presents itself.
"If we carry the problem higher, shall we not be like the Hindus, who
put the world upon a tortoise, the tortoise on an elephant, and do not
know on what the feet of their elephant may rest? This supreme will,
issuing from the contest between God and Matter, this God, this more
than God, can He have existed throughout eternity without willing what
He afterwards willed,--admitting that Eternity can be divided into two
eras. No matter where God is, what becomes of His intuitive
Seraphita |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Enemies of Books by William Blades: some manuscript and some printed, but all of which they considered
as old rubbish of no value.
At first they were thrown into the gardener's rooms; but, after some months,
they decided in their wisdom to give the whole refuse to the gardener
as a recognition of his long services.
This man, wiser in his generation than these simple fathers,
took the lot to M. Vanderberg, an amateur and man of education.
M. Vanderberg took a cursory view, and then offered to buy them
by weight at sixpence per pound. The bargain was at once concluded,
and M. Vanderberg had the books.
Shortly after, Mr. Stark, a well-known London bookseller,
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