| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad: continued, indicating Nina. "Your hand shook much; for myself I
was not afraid."
"Nina!" exclaimed Almayer, "come to me at once. What is this
sudden madness? What bewitched you? Come to your father, and
together we shall try to forget this horrible nightmare!"
He opened his arms with the certitude of clasping her to his
breast in another second. She did not move. As it dawned upon
him that she did not mean to obey he felt a deadly cold creep
into his heart, and, pressing the palms of his hands to his
temples, he looked down on the ground in mute despair. Dain took
Nina by the arm and led her towards her father.
Almayer's Folly |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Profits of Religion by Upton Sinclair: virtue. Men will gather more than ever in beautiful places to
voice their love of life and of one another; but the places in
which they gather will be places swept clean of superstition and
tyranny. As the Reformation compelled the Catholic Church to
cleanse itself and abolish the grossest of its abuses, so the
Social Revolution will compel it to repudiate its defense of
parasitism and exploitation. I will record the prophecy that by
the year 1950 all Catholic authorities will be denying that the
Church ever opposed Socialism--true Socialism; just as today they
deny that the Church ever tortured Galileo, ever burned men for
teaching that the earth moves around the sun, ever sold the right
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tanach: 2_Kings 18: 25 Am I now come up without the LORD against this place to destroy it? The LORD said unto me: Go up against this land, destroy it.'
2_Kings 18: 26 Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebnah, and Joah, unto Rab-shakeh: 'Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Aramean language; for we understand it; and speak not with us in the Jews' language, in the ears of the people that are on the wall.'
2_Kings 18: 27 But Rab-shakeh said unto them: 'Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men that sit on the wall, to eat their own dung, and to drink their own water with you?'
2_Kings 18: 28 Then Rab-shakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and spoke, saying: 'Hear ye the word of the great king, the king of Assyria.
2_Kings 18: 29 Thus saith the king: Let not Hezekiah beguile you; for he will not be able to deliver you out of his hand;
2_Kings 18: 30 neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying: The LORD will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.
2_Kings 18: 31 Hearken not to Hezekiah; for thus saith the king of Assyria: Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of his fig-tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own cistern;
2_Kings 18: 32 until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive-trees and of honey, that ye may live, and not die; 
The Tanach |
