| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo: He imagined that M. Leblanc was darting angry glances at him.
"Is that gentleman going to address me?" he thought to himself.
He dropped his head; when he raised it again, they were very near him.
The young girl passed, and as she passed, she glanced at him.
She gazed steadily at him, with a pensive sweetness which
thrilled Marius from head to foot. It seemed to him that she
was reproaching him for having allowed so long a time to elapse
without coming as far as her, and that she was saying to him: "I am
coming myself." Marius was dazzled by those eyes fraught with rays
and abysses.
He felt his brain on fire. She had come to him, what joy!
Les Miserables |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Egmont by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe: Mother. Farewell.
Brackenburg (extending his hand). Your hand.
Clara (refusing hers). When you come next.
[Exeunt Mother and DAUGHTER.
Brackenburg (alone). I had resolved to go away again at once; and yet,
when she takes me at my word, and lets me leave her, I feel as if I could
go mad,--Wretched man! Does the fate of thy fatherland, does the growing
disturbance fail to move thee?--Are countryman and Spaniard the same to
thee? and carest thou not who rules, and who is in the right? I wad a
different sort of fellow as a schoolboy! --Then, when an exercise in
oratory was given; "Brutus' Speech for Liberty," for instance, Fritz was
Egmont |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tanach: Joel 2: 1 Blow ye the horn in Zion, and sound an alarm in My holy mountain; let all the inhabitants of the land tremble; for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is at hand;
Joel 2: 2 A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, as blackness spread upon the mountains; a great people and a mighty, there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after them, even to the years of many generations.
Joel 2: 3 A fire devoureth before them, and behind them a flame blazeth; the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing escapeth them.
Joel 2: 4 The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so do they run.
Joel 2: 5 Like the noise of chariots, on the tops of the mountains do they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a mighty people set in battle array.
Joel 2: 6 At their presence the peoples are in anguish; all faces have gathered blackness.
Joel 2: 7 They run like mighty men, they climb the wall like men of war; and they move on every one in his ways, and they entangle not their paths.
Joel 2: 8 Neither doth one thrust another, they march every one in his highway; and they break through the weapons, and suffer no harm.
Joel 2: 9 They leap upon the city, they run upon the wall, they climb up into the houses; they enter in at the windows like a thief.
Joel 2: 10 Before them the earth quaketh, the heavens tremble; the sun and the moon are become black, and the stars withdraw their shining.
The Tanach |
