| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: shall he come.
JER 46:19 O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into
captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant.
JER 46:20 Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it
cometh out of the north.
JER 46:21 Also her hired men are in the midst of her like fatted
bullocks; for they also are turned back, and are fled away together:
they did not stand, because the day of their calamity was come upon
them, and the time of their visitation.
JER 46:22 The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall
march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.
King James Bible |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Youth by Joseph Conrad: boys!' when suddenly I felt something hard floating on
deck strike the calf of my leg. I made a grab at it and
missed. It was so dark we could not see each other's
faces within a foot--you understand.
"After that thump the ship kept quiet for a while,
and the thing, whatever it was, struck my leg again.
This time I caught it--and it was a sauce-pan. At first,
being stupid with fatigue and thinking of nothing but
the pumps, I did not understand what I had in my hand.
Suddenly it dawned upon me, and I shouted, 'Boys, the
house on deck is gone. Leave this, and let's look for the
Youth |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates by Howard Pyle: upon Tom, but asked him to stay to supper. There was nobody to be
there, he said, but his wife and daughter.
Tom, all in a panic at the very thought of the two ladies,
sturdily refused to stay even for the dish of tea Mr.
Chillingsworth offered him.
He did not know that he was destined to stay there as long as he
should live.
"And now," said Mr. Chillingsworth, "tell me about yourself."
"I have nothing to tell, Your Honor," said Tom, "except that I
was washed up out of the sea."
"Washed up out of the sea!" exclaimed Mr. Chillingsworth. "Why,
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates |
