| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: cave towards the right hand, and when it set leave them on the left
hand, while they were in the spacious part thereof. That is one of the
signs of God. Whom God guides he is guided indeed, and whom He leads
astray thou shalt surely find for him no patron to guide aright.
Thou mightst have reckoned them waking though they were sleeping, as
we turned them towards the right and towards the left; and their dog
spreading out his fore-paws on the threshold. Hadst thou come suddenly
upon them thou wouldst surely have turned and fled away from them, and
wouldst surely have been filled by them with dread.
Thus did we raise them up that they might question each other. Spake
a speaker amongst them, 'How long have ye tarried?' They said, 'We
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe: who were set to watch the houses so shut up; also several people
broke out by force in many places, as I shall observe by-and-by. But it
was a public good that justified the private mischief, and there was no
obtaining the least mitigation by any application to magistrates or
government at that time, at least not that I heard of. This put the
people upon all manner of stratagem in order, if possible, to get out;
and it would fill a little volume to set down the arts used by the people
of such houses to shut the eyes of the watchmen who were employed,
to deceive them, and to escape or break out from them, in which
frequent scuffles and some mischief happened; of which by itself.
As I went along Houndsditch one morning about eight o'clock there
A Journal of the Plague Year |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Oedipus Trilogy by Sophocles: O, I adjure you, hide me anywhere
Far from this land, or slay me straight, or cast me
Down to the depths of ocean out of sight.
Come hither, deign to touch an abject wretch;
Draw near and fear not; I myself must bear
The load of guilt that none but I can share.
[Enter CREON.]
CREON
Lo, here is Creon, the one man to grant
Thy prayer by action or advice, for he
Is left the State's sole guardian in thy stead.
Oedipus Trilogy |
