| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Enemies of Books by William Blades: I have often caught them in such holes.' 30/12/83." The damage
is an oblong hole, surrounded by a white fluffy glaze
(fungoid?), difficult to represent in a woodcut.
The size here given is exact.
CHAPTER VIII.
BOOKBINDERS.
IN the first chapter I mentioned bookbinders among the Enemies
of Books, and I tremble to think what a stinging retort might be made
if some irate bibliopegist were to turn the scales on the printer,
and place HIM in the same category. On the sins of printers,
and the unnatural neglect which has often shortened the lives
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: And their brethren he shall increase in error, then they shall not
desist.
Shouldst Thou not bring them a sign they say, 'Hast Thou not yet
made choice of one? Say, 'I only follow what is inspired to me by my
Lord. These are perceptions from my Lord, and a guidance and a mercy
to a people who believe.'
And when the Koran is read, then listen thereto and keep silence;
haply ye may obtain mercy.
And remember thy Lord within thyself humbly and with fear, not
openly in words, in the morning and in the evening; and be not of
those who do not care. Verily, they who are with my Lord are not too
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Study of a Woman by Honore de Balzac: fact of having neither mistress, nor fender, nor dressing-gown.
The first letter which Eugene wrote was soon finished; he folded and
sealed it, and laid it before him without adding the address. The
second letter, begun at eleven o'clock, was not finished till mid-day.
The four pages were closely filled.
"That woman keeps running in my head," he muttered, as he folded this
second epistle and laid it before him, intending to direct it as soon
as he had ended his involuntary revery.
He crossed the two flaps of his flowered dressing-gown, put his feet
on a stool, slipped his hands into the pockets of his red cashmere
trousers, and lay back in a delightful easy-chair with side wings, the
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