| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: I'se make my tale short. Since ye are sae kind as to say ye are
content to lend me as muckle siller as will stock and plenish the
Heugh-foot, I am content, on my part, to accept the courtesy wi'
mony kind thanks; and troth, I think it will be as safe in my
hands as yours, if ye leave it flung about in that gate for the
first loon body to lift, forbye the risk o' bad neighbours that
can win through steekit doors and lockfast places, as I can tell
to my cost. I say, since ye hae sae muckle consideration for me,
I'se be blithe to accept your kindness; and my mother and me
(she's a life-renter, and I am fiar, o' the lands o' Wideopen)
would grant you a wadset, or an heritable bond, for the siller,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tanach: Psalms 129: 8 Neither do they that go by say: 'The blessing of the LORD be upon you; we bless you in the name of the LORD.'
Psalms 130: 1 A Song of Ascents. Out of the depths have I called Thee, O LORD.
Psalms 130: 2 Lord, hearken unto my voice; let Thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications.
Psalms 130: 3 If Thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?
Psalms 130: 4 For with Thee there is forgiveness, that Thou mayest be feared.
Psalms 130: 5 I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in His word do I hope.
Psalms 130: 6 My soul waiteth for the Lord, more than watchmen for the morning; yea, more than watchmen for the morning.
Psalms 130: 7 O Israel, hope in the LORD; for with the LORD there is mercy, and with Him is plenteous redemption.
Psalms 130: 8 And He will redeem Israel from all his iniquities.
Psalms 131: 1 A Song of Ascents; of David. LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty; neither do I exercise myself in things too great, or in things too wonderful for me.
Psalms 131: 2 Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul; like a weaned child with his mother; my soul is with me like a weaned child.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Life of the Spider by J. Henri Fabre: nuptial badge, the black-velvet bib. The Spiders meet at night, by
the soft moonlight: they romp together, they eat the beloved
shortly after the wedding; by day, they scour the country, they
track the game on the short-pile, grassy carpet, they take their
fill of the joys of the sun. That is much better than solitary
meditation at the bottom of a well. And so it is not rare to see
young mothers dragging their bag of eggs, or even already carrying
their family, and as yet without a home.
In October, it is time to settle down. We then, in fact, find two
sorts of burrows, which differ in diameter. The larger, bottle-
neck burrows belong to the old matrons, who have owned their house
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