| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: neither any thing hid, that shall not be known and come abroad.
LUK 8:18 Take heed therefore how ye hear: for whosoever hath, to him
shall be given; and whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken even
that which he seemeth to have.
LUK 8:19 Then came to him his mother and his brethren, and could not
come at him for the press.
LUK 8:20 And it was told him by certain which said, Thy mother and thy
brethren stand without, desiring to see thee.
LUK 8:21 And he answered and said unto them, My mother and my brethren
are these which hear the word of God, and do it.
LUK 8:22 Now it came to pass on a certain day, that he went into a ship
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tom Grogan by F. Hopkinson Smith: to Billy's coat the more absorbed he seemed to be in the view
beyond.
Here an extraordinary thing happened. There was a dipping of
Cully's head between Billy's legs, a raising of both arms,
grabbing Billy around the waist, and in a flash the hope of the
house of McGaw was swept off his feet, Cully beneath him, and in
full run toward Tom's house. The bystanders laughed; they thought
it only a boyish trick. Billy kicked and struggled, but Cully
held on. When they were clear of the crowd, Cully shook him to
the ground and grabbed him by the coat-collar.
"Say, young feller, where wuz ye when de fire started?"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe: the character of his face had been at all times remarkable. A
cadaverousness of complexion; an eye large, liquid, and luminous
beyond comparison; lips somewhat thin and very pallid, but of a
surpassingly beautiful curve; a nose of a delicate Hebrew model,
but with a breadth of nostril unusual in similar formations; a
finely-moulded chin, speaking, in its want of prominence, of a
want of moral energy; hair of a more than web-like softness and
tenuity; these features, with an inordinate expansion above the
regions of the temple, made up altogether a countenance not
easily to be forgotten. And now in the mere exaggeration of the
prevailing character of these features, and of the expression
The Fall of the House of Usher |
