| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Poems by Oscar Wilde: Of viols, or the music of the sea
That sleeps, a mimic echo, in the shell.
Poem: Taedium Vitae
To stab my youth with desperate knives, to wear
This paltry age's gaudy livery,
To let each base hand filch my treasury,
To mesh my soul within a woman's hair,
And be mere Fortune's lackeyed groom, - I swear
I love it not! these things are less to me
Than the thin foam that frets upon the sea,
Less than the thistledown of summer air
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Blix by Frank Norris:
"And you're going to be gone four years--four years! Maybe you
never will come back. Can't tell what will happen in four years.
Where's the blooming mouth-organ?"
But the mouth-organ was full of crumbs. Condy could not play on
it. To all his efforts it responded only by gasps, mournfulest
death-rattles, and lamentable wails. Condy hurled it into the
sea.
"Well, where's the blooming book, then?" he demanded. "You're
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A treatise on Good Works by Dr. Martin Luther: of heart to follow the words in deep devotion, that is, with
desire and faith, so that one earnestly desires what the words
say, and not to doubt that it will be heard: that is a great deed
in God's eyes.
Here the evil spirit hinders men with all his powers. Oh, how
often will he here prevent the desire to pray, not allow us to
find time and place, nay, often also raise doubts, whether a man
is worthy to ask anything of such a Majesty as God is, and so
confuse us that a man himself does not know whether it is really
true that he prays or not; whether it is possible that his prayer
is acceptable, and other such strange thoughts. For the evil
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