| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Europeans by Henry James: he said at last, "since Mr. Brand recommends it."
"I should like to perform the ceremony very soon," observed Mr. Brand,
with a sort of solemn simplicity.
"Come, come, that 's charming!" cried Felix, profanely.
Mr. Wentworth sank into his chair. "Doubtless, when you understand it,"
he said, with a certain judicial asperity.
Gertrude went to her sister and led her away, and Felix having passed
his arm into Mr. Brand's and stepped out of the long window with him,
the old man was left sitting there in unillumined perplexity.
Felix did no work that day. In the afternoon, with Gertrude,
he got into one of the boats and floated about with idly-dipping oars.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tanach: Joshua 10: 13 And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the nation had avenged themselves of their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jashar? And the sun stayed in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.
Joshua 10: 14 And there was no day like that before it or after it, that the LORD hearkened unto the voice of a man; for the LORD fought for Israel.
Joshua 10: 15 And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unto the camp to Gilgal.
Joshua 10: 16 And these five kings fled, and hid themselves in the cave at Makkedah.
Joshua 10: 17 And it was told Joshua, saying: 'The five kings are found, hidden in the cave at Makkedah.'
Joshua 10: 18 And Joshua said: 'Roll great stones unto the mouth of the cave, and set men by it to keep them;
Joshua 10: 19 but stay not ye; pursue after your enemies, and smite the hindmost of them; suffer them not to enter into their cities; for the LORD your God hath delivered them into your hand.'
Joshua 10: 20 And it came to pass, when Joshua and the children of Israel had made an end of slaying them with a very great slaughter, till they were consumed, and the remnant which remained of them had entered into the fortified cities,
Joshua 10: 21 that all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah in peace; none whetted his tongue against any of the children of Israel.
The Tanach |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Reminiscences of Tolstoy by Leo Tolstoy: the kibitkas, where they were milked by veiled women, who
then hid themselves from the sight of the men behind a brilliant
chintz curtain, and made the kumiss.
The kumiss was bitter and very nasty, but my father and my
uncle Stephen Behrs were very fond of it, and drank it in large
quantities.
When we boys began to get big, we had at first a German
tutor for two or three years, Fyódor Fyódorovitch
Kaufmann.
I cannot say that we were particularly fond of him. He was
rather rough, and even we children were struck by his German
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