| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Travels with a Donkey in the Cevenne by Robert Louis Stevenson: I parted first from one and then from the other with unfeigned
regret, but yet with the glee of the traveller who shakes off the
dust of one stage before hurrying forth upon another. Then
Modestine and I mounted the course of the Allier, which here led us
back into Gevaudan towards its sources in the forest of Mercoire.
It was but an inconsiderable burn before we left its guidance.
Thence, over a hill, our way lay through a naked plateau, until we
reached Chasserades at sundown.
The company in the inn kitchen that night were all men employed in
survey for one of the projected railways. They were intelligent
and conversible, and we decided the future of France over hot wine,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: poured over their heads boiling water, wherewith what is in their
bellies shall be dissolved and their skins too, and for them are maces
of iron. Whenever they desire to come forth therefrom through pain,
they are sent back into it: 'And taste ye the torment of the burning!'
Verily, God will make those who believe and do right enter into
gardens beneath which rivers flow; they shall be bedecked therein with
bracelets of gold and with pearls, and their garments therein shall be
of silk, and they shall be guided to the goodly speech, and they shall
be guided to the laudable way.
Verily, those who misbelieve and who turn men away from God's path
and the Sacred Mosque, which we have made for all men alike, the
The Koran |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Fantastic Fables by Ambrose Bierce: "My liege," said the Inventor-in-Ordinary of Ingenious Penalties,
"I venture to suggest a keener affliction.
"Name it," the King said.
"Let him retain that head!"
It was so ordered.
The Noser and the Note
THE Head Rifler of an insolvent bank, learning that it was about to
be visited by the official Noser into Things, placed his own
personal note for a large amount among its resources, and, gaily
touching his guitar, awaited the inspection. When the Noser came
to the note he asked, "What's this?"
Fantastic Fables |
