| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Merry Men by Robert Louis Stevenson: hair. What is mine, then, and what am I? If not a curve in this
poor body of mine (which you love, and for the sake of which you
dotingly dream that you love me) not a gesture that I can frame,
not a tone of my voice, not any look from my eyes, no, not even now
when I speak to him I love, but has belonged to others? Others,
ages dead, have wooed other men with my eyes; other men have heard
the pleading of the same voice that now sounds in your ears. The
hands of the dead are in my bosom; they move me, they pluck me,
they guide me; I am a puppet at their command; and I but reinform
features and attributes that have long been laid aside from evil in
the quiet of the grave. Is it me you love, friend? or the race
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tanach: Exodus 23: 30 By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.
Exodus 23: 31 And I will set thy border from the Red Sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness unto the River; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee.
Exodus 23: 32 Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
Exodus 23: 33 They shall not dwell in thy land--lest they make thee sin against Me, for thou wilt serve their gods--for they will be a snare unto thee.
Exodus 24: 1 Thou shalt not utter a false report; put not thy hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
Exodus 24: 2 Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou bear witness in a cause to turn aside after a multitude to pervert justice;
Exodus 24: 3 neither shalt thou favour a poor man in his cause.
Exodus 24: 4 If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.
Exodus 24: 5 If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under its burden, thou shalt forbear to pass by him; thou shalt surely release it with him.
Exodus 24: 6 Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.
The Tanach |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The People That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs: water in my cupped palm and let them trickle between her lips.
This revived her so that she raised her lids, and when she saw
me, she smiled.
"What happened?" she asked. "Where are we?"
"We are at the end of the corridor," I replied, and daylight is
coming in from the outside world just ahead. We are saved, Ajor!"
She sat up then and looked about, and then, quite womanlike,
she burst into tears. It was the reaction, of course; and then
too, she was very weak. I took her in my arms and quieted her
as best I could, and finally, with my help, she got to her
feet; for she, as well as I, had found some slight recuperation
The People That Time Forgot |
