| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Georgics by Virgil: Mark too her cities, so many and so proud,
Of mighty toil the achievement, town on town
Up rugged precipices heaved and reared,
And rivers undergliding ancient walls.
Or should I celebrate the sea that laves
Her upper shores and lower? or those broad lakes?
Thee, Larius, greatest and, Benacus, thee
With billowy uproar surging like the main?
Or sing her harbours, and the barrier cast
Athwart the Lucrine, and how ocean chafes
With mighty bellowings, where the Julian wave
Georgics |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing
of nought, and the deceit of their heart.
JER 14:15 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that
prophesy in my name, and I sent them not, yet they say, Sword and famine
shall not be in this land; By sword and famine shall those prophets be
consumed.
JER 14:16 And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the
streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and they shall
have none to bury them, them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their
daughters: for I will pour their wickedness upon them.
JER 14:17 Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes
King James Bible |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Ursula by Honore de Balzac: "Your mother will pay if you write a clever letter," said Rastignac.
"Yes, but afterwards?" cried de Marsay.
"If you had merely been put in the fiacre," said Lucien, "the
government would find you a place in diplomacy, but Saint-Pelagie
isn't the antechamber of an embassy."
"You are not strong enough for Parisian life," said Rastignac.
"Let us consider the matter," said de Marsay, looking Savinien over as
a jockey examines a horse. "You have fine blue eyes, well opened, a
white forehead well shaped, magnificent black hair, a little moustache
which suits those pale cheeks, and a slim figure; you've a foot that
tells race, shoulders and chest not quite those of a porter, but
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