| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tanach: Isaiah 21: 4 My heart is bewildered, terror hath overwhelmed me; the twilight that I longed for hath been turned for me into trembling.
Isaiah 21: 5 They prepare the table, they light the lamps, they eat, they drink--' Rise up, ye princes, anoint the shield.'
Isaiah 21: 6 For thus hath the Lord said unto me: Go, set a watchman; let him declare what he seeth!
Isaiah 21: 7 And when he seeth a troop, horsemen by pairs, a troop of asses, a troop of camels, he shall hearken diligently with much heed.
Isaiah 21: 8 And he cried as a lion: 'Upon the watch-tower, O Lord, I stand continually in the daytime, and I am set in my ward all the nights.'
Isaiah 21: 9 And, behold, there came a troop of men, horsemen by pairs. And he spoke and said: 'Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the graven images of her gods are broken unto the ground.'
Isaiah 21: 10 O thou my threshing, and the winnowing of my floor, that which I have heard from the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you.
Isaiah 21: 11 The burden of Dumah. One calleth unto me out of Seir: 'Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?'
Isaiah 21: 12 The watchman said: 'The morning cometh, and also the night--if ye will inquire, inquire ye; return, come.'
Isaiah 21: 13 The burden upon Arabia. In the thickets in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye caravans of Dedanites.
Isaiah 21: 14 Unto him that is thirsty bring ye water! The inhabitants of the land of Tema did meet the fugitive with his bread.
The Tanach |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Mrs. Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw: CROFTS [suspiciously] Then you know who he was?
PRAED [with a touch of temper] I said no just now. Did you not
hear me?
CROFTS. Look here, Praed. I ask you as a particular favor. If
you d o know [movement of protest from Praed] --I only say, if
you know, you might at least set my mind at rest about her. The
fact is, I fell attracted.
PRAED [sternly] What do you mean?
CROFTS. Oh, dont be alarmed: it's quite an innocent feeling.
Thats what puzzles me about it. Why, for all I know, _I_ might
be her father.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe: My cargo, as near as I can recollect, for I have not kept account
of the particulars, consisted of a sufficient quantity of linen,
and some English thin stuffs, for clothing the Spaniards that I
expected to find there; and enough of them, as by my calculation
might comfortably supply them for seven years; if I remember right,
the materials I carried for clothing them, with gloves, hats,
shoes, stockings, and all such things as they could want for
wearing, amounted to about two hundred pounds, including some beds,
bedding, and household stuff, particularly kitchen utensils, with
pots, kettles, pewter, brass, &c.; and near a hundred pounds more
in ironwork, nails, tools of every kind, staples, hooks, hinges,
Robinson Crusoe |
