| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: the west, which are made of old red sandstone, very much the same
rock (to speak roughly) as the Kerry mountains.
And why are the lines in it twisted?
To show that the strata, the layers in it, are twisted, and set up
at quite different angles from the limestone.
But how was that done?
By old earthquakes and changes which happened in old worlds, ages
on ages since. Then the edges of the old red sandstone were eaten
away by the sea--and some think by ice too, in some earlier age of
ice; and then the limestone coral reef was laid down on them,
"unconformably," as geologists say--just as you saw the new red
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tanach: Numbers 27: 12 And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Get thee up into this mountain of Abarim, and behold the land which I have given unto the children of Israel.
Numbers 27: 13 And when thou hast seen it, thou also shalt be gathered unto thy people, as Aaron thy brother was gathered;
Numbers 27: 14 because ye rebelled against My commandment in the wilderness of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify Me at the waters before their eyes.' --These are the waters of Meribath-kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.--
Numbers 27: 15 And Moses spoke unto the LORD, saying:
Numbers 27: 16 'Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation,
Numbers 27: 17 who may go out before them, and who may come in before them, and who may lead them out, and who may bring them in; that the congregation of the LORD be not as sheep which have no shepherd.'
Numbers 27: 18 And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Take thee Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is spirit, and lay thy hand upon him;
Numbers 27: 19 and set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation; and give him a charge in their sight.
Numbers 27: 20 And thou shalt put of thy honour upon him, that all the congregation of the children of Israel may hearken.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Country Doctor by Honore de Balzac: fall ill, say nothing about it, and take to their beds like dumb
animals. But let us say no more about death, and let us quicken our
horses' paces a little; we ought to reach the town before nightfall,
so that you may see the new quarter."
"Eh! some place is on fire over there," said Genestas, pointing to a
spot on the mountain, where a sheaf of flames was rising.
"It is not a dangerous fire. Our lime-burner is heating his kiln, no
doubt. It is a newly-started industry, which turns our heather to
account."
There was the sudden report of a gun, followed by an involuntary
exclamation from Benassis, who said, with an impatient gesture, "If
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