| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from 1492 by Mary Johntson: there for melons and fruit and cassava and tobacco which
we bought with beads and fishhooks and bits of bright cloth.
Three of the seven at La Navidad were out of gate, down
at the river, washing their clothes. Diego Minas, the archer,
on top of wall, watched the forest. Walking below, Beltran
the cook was singing in his big voice a Moorish song
that they made much of year before last in Seville. I had a
book of Messer Petrarca's poems. It had been Gutierrez's,
who left it behind when he broke forth to the mountains.
Beltran's voice suddenly ceased. Diego the archer above
him on wall had cried down, ``Hush, will you, a moment!''
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Silas Marner by George Eliot: feeble evasion, but Godfrey was not fond of lying, and, not being
sufficiently aware that no sort of duplicity can long flourish
without the help of vocal falsehoods, he was quite unprepared with
invented motives.
"You don't know? I tell you what it is, sir. You've been up to
some trick, and you've been bribing him not to tell," said the
Squire, with a sudden acuteness which startled Godfrey, who felt his
heart beat violently at the nearness of his father's guess. The
sudden alarm pushed him on to take the next step--a very slight
impulse suffices for that on a downward road.
"Why, sir," he said, trying to speak with careless ease, "it was
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird
in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water:
LEV 14:7 And he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the
leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the
living bird loose into the open field.
LEV 14:8 And he that is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and
shave off all his hair, and wash himself in water, that he may be clean:
and after that he shall come into the camp, and shall tarry abroad out
of his tent seven days.
LEV 14:9 But it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all
his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair
King James Bible |
