| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy: obstinately to our own opinions. With strangers we talked upon
the most varied and most intimate matters, but not with each
other. Sometimes, in listening to my wife talk with others in my
presence, I said to myself: 'What a woman! Everything that she
says is a lie!' And I was astonished that the person with whom
she was conversing did not see that she was lying. When we were
together; we were condemned to silence, or to conversations
which, I am sure, might have been carried on by animals.
"'What time is it? It is bed-time. What is there for dinner
to-day? Where shall we go? What is there in the newspaper? The
doctor must be sent for, Lise has a sore throat.'
The Kreutzer Sonata |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: for twenty pieces of silver: and they brought Joseph into Egypt.
GEN 37:29 And Reuben returned unto the pit; and, behold, Joseph was not
in the pit; and he rent his clothes.
GEN 37:30 And he returned unto his brethren, and said, The child is
not; and I, whither shall I go?
GEN 37:31 And they took Joseph's coat, and killed a kid of the goats,
and dipped the coat in the blood;
GEN 37:32 And they sent the coat of many colours, and they brought it
to their father; and said, This have we found: know now whether it be
thy son's coat or no.
GEN 37:33 And he knew it, and said, It is my son's coat; an evil beast
King James Bible |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving: the numerous rustic admirers, who beset every portal to her
heart, keeping a watchful and angry eye upon each other, but
ready to fly out in the common cause against any new competitor.
Among these, the most formidable was a burly, roaring,
roystering blade, of the name of Abraham, or, according to the
Dutch abbreviation, Brom Van Brunt, the hero of the country round
which rang with his feats of strength and hardihood. He was
broad-shouldered and double-jointed, with short curly black hair,
and a bluff but not unpleasant countenance, having a mingled air
of fun and arrogance From his Herculean frame and great powers of
limb he had received the nickname of BROM BONES, by which he was
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow |
