| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Divine Comedy (translated by H.F. Cary) by Dante Alighieri: E'en the remembrance of them grieves me yet.
Attentive to their cry my teacher paus'd,
And turn'd to me his visage, and then spake;
"Wait now! our courtesy these merit well:
And were 't not for the nature of the place,
Whence glide the fiery darts, I should have said,
That haste had better suited thee than them.''
They, when we stopp'd, resum'd their ancient wail,
And soon as they had reach'd us, all the three
Whirl'd round together in one restless wheel.
As naked champions, smear'd with slippery oil,
The Divine Comedy (translated by H.F. Cary) |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: CH1 1:10 And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be mighty upon the earth.
CH1 1:11 And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and
Naphtuhim,
CH1 1:12 And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (of whom came the Philistines,)
and Caphthorim.
CH1 1:13 And Canaan begat Zidon his firstborn, and Heth,
CH1 1:14 The Jebusite also, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite,
CH1 1:15 And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,
CH1 1:16 And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite.
CH1 1:17 The sons of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and
Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech.
King James Bible |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Droll Stories, V. 1 by Honore de Balzac: "Where does he comes from?" asked another.
"Poor child!" cried Madame, "his mother must be looking for him. Show
him his way home."
The Touranian, still sensible, gave a movement of delight at the sight
of the brocaded bed where the sweet form was about to repose. This
glance, full of amorous intelligence, awoke the lady's fantasy, who,
half laughing and half smitten, repeated "To-morrow," and dismissed
him with a gesture which the Pope Jehan himself would have obeyed,
especially as he was like a snail without a shell, since the Council
had just deprived him of the holy keys.
"Ah! Madame, there is another vow of chastity changed into an amorous
Droll Stories, V. 1 |
