| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Life in the Iron-Mills by Rebecca Davis: He did not answer. She wrung her hands, trying to be silent,
looking in his face in an agony of entreaty. He smiled again,
kindly.
"It is best, Deb. I cannot bear to be hurted any more.
"Hur knows," she said, humbly.
"Tell my father good-bye; and--and kiss little Janey."
She nodded, saying nothing, looked in his face again, and went
out of the door. As she went, she staggered.
"Drinkin' to-day?" broke out Haley, pushing her before him.
"Where the Devil did you get it? Here, in with ye!" and he
shoved her into her cell, next to Wolfe's, and shut the door.
Life in the Iron-Mills |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Edingburgh Picturesque Notes by Robert Louis Stevenson: text. The classical examples of this art are in
Greyfriars. In their time, these were doubtless costly
monuments, and reckoned of a very elegant proportion by
contemporaries; and now, when the elegance is not so
apparent, the significance remains. You may perhaps look
with a smile on the profusion of Latin mottoes - some
crawling endwise up the shaft of a pillar, some issuing
on a scroll from angels' trumpets - on the emblematic
horrors, the figures rising headless from the grave, and
all the traditional ingenuities in which it pleased our
fathers to set forth their sorrow for the dead and their
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: cubits was the length thereof, and five cubits the breadth thereof; it
was foursquare; and three cubits the height thereof.
EXO 38:2 And he made the horns thereof on the four corners of it; the
horns thereof were of the same: and he overlaid it with brass.
EXO 38:3 And he made all the vessels of the altar, the pots, and the
shovels, and the basons, and the fleshhooks, and the firepans: all the
vessels thereof made he of brass.
EXO 38:4 And he made for the altar a brasen grate of network under the
compass thereof beneath unto the midst of it.
EXO 38:5 And he cast four rings for the four ends of the grate of
brass, to be places for the staves.
King James Bible |
