| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Market-Place by Harold Frederic: "Twenty-FIVE!" he said, and laughed aloud. "After you
left this morning, it kind o' occurred to me that I'd
raise it a couple of pounds. I found I was madder about
those pieces in the newspapers than I thought I was,
and so I took an extra seventeen thousand pounds on
that account."
"God above!" Semple ejaculated, with a satisfaction
through which signs of an earlier fright were visible.
"It was touch-and-go if you didn't lose it all by doing
that! You risked everything, man!"
Thorpe ponderously shrugged his shoulders.
The Market-Place |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tanach: Numbers 28: 20 and their meal-offering, fine flour mingled with oil; three tenth parts shall ye offer for a bullock, and two tenth parts for the ram;
Numbers 28: 21 a several tenth part shalt thou offer for every lamb of the seven lambs;
Numbers 28: 22 and one he-goat for a sin-offering, to make atonement for you.
Numbers 28: 23 Ye shall offer these beside the burnt-offering of the morning, which is for a continual burnt-offering.
Numbers 28: 24 After this manner ye shall offer daily, for seven days, the food of the offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD; it shall be offered beside the continual burnt-offering, and the drink-offering thereof.
Numbers 28: 25 And on the seventh day ye shall have a holy convocation; ye shall do no manner of servile work.
Numbers 28: 26 Also in the day of the first-fruits, when ye bring a new meal-offering unto the LORD in your feast of weeks, ye shall have a holy convocation: ye shall do no manner of servile work;
Numbers 28: 27 but ye shall present a burnt-offering for a sweet savour unto the LORD: two young bullocks, one ram, seven he-lambs of the first year;
Numbers 28: 28 and their meal-offering, fine flour mingled with oil, three tenth parts for each bullock, two tenth parts for the one ram,
Numbers 28: 29 a several tenth part for every lamb of the seven lambs;
The Tanach |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Silas Marner by George Eliot: weariness, rather than to have the encircling arms benumbed so that
they could not feel the dear burden. In another moment Molly had
flung something away, but it was not the black remnant--it was an
empty phial. And she walked on again under the breaking cloud, from
which there came now and then the light of a quickly veiled star,
for a freezing wind had sprung up since the snowing had ceased. But
she walked always more and more drowsily, and clutched more and more
automatically the sleeping child at her bosom.
Slowly the demon was working his will, and cold and weariness were
his helpers. Soon she felt nothing but a supreme immediate longing
that curtained off all futurity--the longing to lie down and
Silas Marner |
