| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Large Catechism by Dr. Martin Luther: girl tends a little child and faithfully does what she is told that is
considered nothing; for else what should monks and nuns seek in their
cloisters?
But see, is not that a cursed presumption of those desperate saints who
dare to invent a higher and better life and estate than the Ten
Commandments teach, pretending (as we have said) that this is an
ordinary life for the common man, but that theirs is for saints and
perfect ones? And the miserable blind people do not see that no man can
get so far as to keep one of the Ten Commandments as it should be kept,
but both the Apostles' Creed and the Lord's Prayer must come to our aid
(as we shall hear), by which that [power and strength to keep the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne: It was naturally tender, sensitive, and full of little tremors and
palpitations; all of which weaknesses it retained, while her visage
was growing so perversely stern, and even fierce. Nor had Hepzibah
ever any hardihood, except what came from the very warmest nook in
her affections.
All this time, however, we are loitering faintheartedly on the
threshold of our story. In very truth, we have an invincible
reluctance to disclose what Miss Hepzibah Pyncheon was about to do.
It has already been observed, that, in the basement story of the
gable fronting on the street, an unworthy ancestor, nearly a
century ago, had fitted up a shop. Ever since the old gentleman
House of Seven Gables |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: There was, too, a feeling of profound and inexplicable horror
concerning myself. I developed a queer fear of seeing my own form,
as if my eyes would find it something utterly alien and inconceivably
abhorrent.
When I did glance down and behold the familiar human
shape in quiet grey or blue clothing, I always felt a curious
relief, though in order to gain this relief I had to conquer an
infinite dread. I shunned mirrors as much as possible, and was
always shaved at the barber's.
It was a long time before I correlated
any of these disappointed feelings with the fleeting, visual impressions
Shadow out of Time |
