| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Albert Savarus by Honore de Balzac: was received without hesitation by the lawyers of the town. They were
satisfied to say, 'Here is a man who does not know his Besancon. Who
the devil can have sent him here? What can he hope to do? Sending his
card to the Judges instead of calling in person! What a blunder!' And
so, three days after, Savaron had ceased to exist. He took as his
servant old Monsieur Galard's man--Galard being dead--Jerome, who can
cook a little. Albert Savaron was all the more completely forgotten,
because no one had seen him or met him anywhere."
"Then, does he not go to mass?" asked Madame de Chavoncourt.
"He goes on Sundays to Saint-Pierre, but to the early service at eight
in the morning. He rises every night between one and two in the
Albert Savarus |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Large Catechism by Dr. Martin Luther: this is indeed the true holy water and holy sign from which he flees,
and by which he may be driven away.
Now, for this reason alone you ought gladly to read, speak, think and
treat of these things if you had no other profit and fruit from them
than that by doing so you can drive away the devil and evil thoughts.
For he cannot hear or endure God's Word; and God's Word is not like
some other silly prattle, as that about Dietrich of Berne, etc., but as
St. Paul says, Rom. 1, 16, the power of God. Yea, indeed, the power of
God which gives the devil burning pain, and strengthens, comforts, and
helps us beyond measure.
And what need is there of many words ? If I were to recount all the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: way back after the events of the "Anabasis," and implying this
dialogue is concocted, since Socrates died before Xenophon
returned to Athens, if he did return at that period.}
Lysander, it seems, had gone with presents sent by the Allies to
Cyrus, who entertained him, and amongst other marks of courtesy showed
him his "paradise" at Sardis.[16] Lysander was astonished at the
beauty of the trees within, all planted[17] at equal intervals, the
long straight rows of waving branches, the perfect regularity, the
rectangular[18] symmetry of the whole, and the many sweet scents which
hung about them as they paced the park. In admiration he exclaimed to
Cyrus: "All this beauty is marvellous enough, but what astonishes me
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