| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: if the plague in his sight be at a stay, and the plague spread not in
the skin; then the priest shall shut him up seven days more:
LEV 13:6 And the priest shall look on him again the seventh day: and,
behold, if the plague be somewhat dark, and the plague spread not in the
skin, the priest shall pronounce him clean: it is but a scab: and he
shall wash his clothes, and be clean.
LEV 13:7 But if the scab spread much abroad in the skin, after that he
hath been seen of the priest for his cleansing, he shall be seen of the
priest again.
LEV 13:8 And if the priest see that, behold, the scab spreadeth in the
skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a leprosy.
King James Bible |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from At the Sign of the Cat & Racket by Honore de Balzac: forth her painful position, she had to face the deluge of commonplace
morality which the traditions of the Rue Saint-Denis furnished to her
sister.
"The mischief is done, wife," said Joseph Lebas; "we must try to give
our sister good advice." Then the clever tradesman ponderously
analyzed the resources which law and custom might offer Augustine as a
means of escape at this crisis; he ticketed every argument, so to
speak, and arranged them in their degrees of weight under various
categories, as though they were articles of merchandise of different
qualities; then he put them in the scale, weighed them, and ended by
showing the necessity for his sister-in-law's taking violent steps
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine: cow-puncher knelt beside the dying outlaw and put an arm under
his head.
"Shot all to pieces, boy. No, I got no time to have you play
doctor with me." He turned to Collins with a gleam of his
unconquerable spirit. "You came pretty near making a clean
round-up, sheriff. I'm the fourth to be put out of business.
You'd ought to be content with that. Let York here go."
"I can't do that, but I'll do my best to see he gets off light."
"I got him into this, sheriff. He was all right before he knew
me. I want him to get a chance now. "
"I wish I could give him a pardon, but I can't do it. I'll see
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