| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might
come and anoint him.
MAR 16:2 And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they
came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun.
MAR 16:3 And they said among themselves, Who shall roll us away the
stone from the door of the sepulchre?
MAR 16:4 And when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolled away:
for it was very great.
MAR 16:5 And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting
on the right side, clothed in a long white garment; and they were
affrighted.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Turn of the Screw by Henry James: and most of all because things have got so bad--a little more time."
My friend appeared on this ground more reluctant than I could
quite understand. "What do you mean by more time?"
"Well, a day or two--really to bring it out. He'll then be on
MY side--of which you see the importance. If nothing comes,
I shall only fail, and you will, at the worst, have helped me by doing,
on your arrival in town, whatever you may have found possible."
So I put it before her, but she continued for a little so inscrutably
embarrassed that I came again to her aid. "Unless, indeed,"
I wound up, "you really want NOT to go."
I could see it, in her face, at last clear itself;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving: in these sheltered, long settled retreats; but are trampled under
foot by the shifting throng that forms the population of most of
our country places. Besides, there is no encouragement for ghosts
in most of our villages, for they have scarcely had time to
finish their first nap and turn themselves in their graves,
before their surviving friends have travelled away from the
neighborhood; so that when they turn out at night to walk their
rounds, they have no acquaintance left to call upon. This is
perhaps the reason why we so seldom hear of ghosts except in our
long-established Dutch communities.
The immediate cause, however, of the prevalence of
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow |
