| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: happiness with him now. But her companion's words reminded her of
what she was now and what she had been, and brought back all the
horrors of that life, which she had felt but dimly, and not
allowed herself to realise.
It was only now that the memory of all those terrible nights came
vividly back to her, especially one during the carnival when she
was expecting a student who had promised to buy her out. She
remembered how she--wearing her low necked silk dress stained
with wine, a red bow in her untidy hair, wearied, weak, half
tipsy, having seen her visitors off, sat down during an interval
in the dancing by the piano beside the bony pianiste with the
Resurrection |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tanach: 1_Chronicles 3: 5 And these were born unto him in Jerusalem: Shimea, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon, four, of Bath-shua the daughter of Ammiel;
1_Chronicles 3: 6 and Ibhar, and Elishama, and Eliphelet;
1_Chronicles 3: 7 and Nogah, and Nepheg, and Japhia;
1_Chronicles 3: 8 and Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphelet, nine.
1_Chronicles 3: 9 All these were the sons of David, beside the sons of the concubines; and Tamar was their sister.
1_Chronicles 3: 10 And Solomon's son was Rehoboam; Abijah his son, Asa his son, Jehoshaphat his son;
1_Chronicles 3: 11 Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son;
1_Chronicles 3: 12 Amaziah his son, Azariah his son, Jotham his son;
1_Chronicles 3: 13 Ahaz his son, Hezekiah his son, Manasseh his son;
1_Chronicles 3: 14 Amon his son, Josiah his son.
1_Chronicles 3: 15 And the sons of Josiah: the firstborn Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum.
The Tanach |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Straight Deal by Owen Wister: States.
If the reader has followed me from the beginning, he will recollect a
letter, parts of which I quoted, from a correspondent who spoke of Mont-
gomery's history, giving passages in which a fair and adequate
recognition of Pitt and our English sympathizers and their opposition to
George III is made. This would seem to indicate a revision of the work
since Mr. Altschul published his lists, and to substantiate the hope I
expressed in my original article, and which I here repeat. Surely the
publishers of these books will revise them! Surely any patriotic American
publisher and any patriotic board of education, school principal, or
educator, will watch and resist all propaganda and other sinister
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