| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain: I go...
G.S. (With a dainty gesture of the hand signifying "Spare
me your callow enthusiasms, good friend.") Yes, _I_ know,
I know; you go to cathedrals, and exclaim; and you drag
through league-long picture-galleries and exclaim; and you
stand here, and there, and yonder, upon historic ground,
and continue to exclaim; and you are permeated with
your first crude conceptions of Art, and are proud
and happy. Ah, yes, proud and happy--that expresses it.
Yes-yes, enjoy it--it is right--it is an innocent revel.
H. And you? Don't you do these things now?
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: unto David, Go up: for I will doubtless deliver the Philistines into
thine hand.
SA2 5:20 And David came to Baalperazim, and David smote them there, and
said, The LORD hath broken forth upon mine enemies before me, as the
breach of waters. Therefore he called the name of that place
Baalperazim.
SA2 5:21 And there they left their images, and David and his men burned
them.
SA2 5:22 And the Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves
in the valley of Rephaim.
SA2 5:23 And when David enquired of the LORD, he said, Thou shalt not
King James Bible |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from La Grande Breteche by Honore de Balzac: came home from the club that his wife was certainly much better, that
convalescence had improved her beauty, discovering it, as husbands
discover everything, a little too late. Instead of calling Rosalie,
who was in the kitchen at the moment watching the cook and the
coachman playing a puzzling hand at cards, Monsieur de Merret made his
way to his wife's room by the light of his lantern, which he set down
at the lowest step of the stairs. His step, easy to recognize, rang
under the vaulted passage.
"At the instant when the gentleman turned the key to enter his wife's
room, he fancied he heard the door shut of the closet of which I have
spoken; but when he went in, Madame de Merret was alone, standing in
La Grande Breteche |
