| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Buttered Side Down by Edna Ferber: did not seem to realize that there was any situation to cover. He
champed the end of his cigar and handed one to Ted.
"Well, you've taken your lickin', kid. What you going to do
now?"
The rawness of it made Ted wince. "Oh, I don't know," he
stammered. "I've a job half promised in Chicago."
"What doing?"
Ted laughed a short and ugly laugh. "Driving a brewery auto
truck."
Jo Haley tossed his cigar dexterously to the opposite corner
of his mouth and squinted thoughtfully along its bulging sides.
Buttered Side Down |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche: himself, provided, as it ought to be, that he has sharpened and
hardened his eye sufficiently long for introspection, and is
accustomed to severe discipline and even severe words. He will
say: "There is something cruel in the tendency of my spirit": let
the virtuous and amiable try to convince him that it is not so!
In fact, it would sound nicer, if, instead of our cruelty,
perhaps our "extravagant honesty" were talked about, whispered
about, and glorified--we free, VERY free spirits--and some day
perhaps SUCH will actually be our--posthumous glory! Meanwhile--
for there is plenty of time until then--we should be least
inclined to deck ourselves out in such florid and fringed moral
Beyond Good and Evil |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: Manasseh, This day we perceive that the LORD is among us, because ye
have not committed this trespass against the LORD: now ye have delivered
the children of Israel out of the hand of the LORD.
JOS 22:32 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, and the princes,
returned from the children of Reuben, and from the children of Gad, out
of the land of Gilead, unto the land of Canaan, to the children of
Israel, and brought them word again.
JOS 22:33 And the thing pleased the children of Israel; and the
children of Israel blessed God, and did not intend to go up against them
in battle, to destroy the land wherein the children of Reuben and Gad
dwelt.
King James Bible |
