| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Poems by T. S. Eliot: A Cooking Egg
En l'an trentiesme de mon aage
Que toutes mes hontes j'ay beucs ...
Pipit sate upright in her chair
Some distance from where I was sitting;
Views of the Oxford Colleges
Lay on the table, with the knitting.
Daguerreotypes and silhouettes,
Her grandfather and great great aunts,
Supported on the mantelpiece
An Invitation to the Dance.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Concerning Christian Liberty by Martin Luther: against any vain confidence or presumption of being justified,
gaining merit, or being saved by these works, this being the part
of faith alone, as I have so often said.
Any man possessing this knowledge may easily keep clear of danger
among those innumerable commands and precepts of the Pope, of
bishops, of monasteries, of churches, of princes, and of
magistrates, which some foolish pastors urge on us as being
necessary for justification and salvation, calling them precepts
of the Church, when they are not so at all. For the Christian
freeman will speak thus: I will fast, I will pray, I will do this
or that which is commanded me by men, not as having any need of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Contrast by Royall Tyler: another? [Holding Dimple.]
DIMPLE
Hold him, hold him,--I can command my passion.
Enter JONATHAN.
JONATHAN
What the rattle ails you? Is the old one in you?
Let the colonel alone, can't you? I feel chock-full
of fight,--do you want to kill the colonel?--
MANLY
Be still, Jonathan; the gentleman does not want to
hurt me.
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