| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Life in the Iron-Mills by Rebecca Davis: turned down the narrow street, that stretched out, long and
black, miles before her. Here and there a flicker of gas
lighted an uncertain space of muddy footwalk and gutter; the
long rows of houses, except an occasional lager-bier shop, were
closed; now and then she met a band of millhands skulking to or
from their work.
Not many even of the inhabitants of a manufacturing town know
the vast machinery of system by which the bodies of workmen are
governed, that goes on unceasingly from year to year. The hands
of each mill are divided into watches that relieve each other as
regularly as the sentinels of an army. By night and day the
Life in the Iron-Mills |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tanach: Jeremiah 46: 11 Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt; in vain dost thou use many medicines; there is no cure for thee.
Jeremiah 46: 12 The nations have heard of thy shame, and the earth is full of thy cry; for the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty, they are fallen both of them together.
Jeremiah 46: 13 The word that the LORD spoke to Jeremiah the prophet, how that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come and smite the land of Egypt.
Jeremiah 46: 14 Declare ye in Egypt, and announce in Migdol, and announce in Noph and in Tahpanhes; say ye: 'Stand forth, and prepare thee, for the sword hath devoured round about thee.'
Jeremiah 46: 15 Why is thy strong one overthrown? He stood not, because the LORD did thrust him down.
Jeremiah 46: 16 He made many to stumble; yea, they fell one upon another, and said: 'Arise, and let us return to our own people, and to the land of our birth, from the oppressing sword.'
Jeremiah 46: 17 They cried there: 'Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath let the appointed time pass by.'
Jeremiah 46: 18 As I live, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts, surely like Tabor among the mountains, and like Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.
Jeremiah 46: 19 O thou daughter that dwellest in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity; for Noph shall become a desolation, and shall be laid waste, without inhabitant.
Jeremiah 46: 20 Egypt is a very fair heifer; but the gadfly out of the north is come, it is come.
Jeremiah 46: 21 Also her mercenaries in the midst of her are like calves of the stall, for they also are turned back, they are fled away together, they did not stand; for the day of their calamity i 
The Tanach |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy: wishes us to stay in the town."
"Very well--arrange that yourself. I'll go some way with
you."
"No, no. Don't run any risk!" said his wife anxiously. "I
can find my way back--it is not late. Please let me go
alone."
"Right," said Henchard. "But just one word. Do you forgive
me, Susan?"
She murmured something; but seemed to find it difficult to
frame her answer.
"Never mind--all in good time," said he. "Judge me by my
The Mayor of Casterbridge |
