| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Little Britain by Washington Irving: decipher, and which extol the charms of many a beauty of
Little Britain who has long, long since bloomed, faded, and
passed away. As I am an idle personage, with no apparent
occupation, and pay my bill regularly every week, I am looked
upon as the only independent gentleman of the neighborhood;
and, being curious to learn the internal state of a community so
apparently shut up within itself, I have managed to work my
way into all the concerns and secrets of the place.
Little Britain may truly be called the heart's core of the city;
the stronghold of true John Bullism. It is a fragment of
London as it was in its better days, with its antiquated folks
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tanach: Psalms 68: 7 (68:8) O God, when Thou wentest forth before Thy people, when Thou didst march through the wilderness; Selah
Psalms 68: 8 (68:9) The earth trembled, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God; even yon Sinai trembled at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
Psalms 68: 9 (68:10) A bounteous rain didst Thou pour down, O God; when Thine inheritance was weary, Thou didst confirm it.
Psalms 68: 10 (68:11) Thy flock settled therein; Thou didst prepare in Thy goodness for the poor, O God.
Psalms 68: 11 (68:12) The Lord giveth the word; the women that proclaim the tidings are a great host.
Psalms 68: 12 (68:13) Kings of armies flee, they flee; and she that tarrieth at home divideth the spoil.
Psalms 68: 13 (68:14) When ye lie among the sheepfolds, the wings of the dove are covered with silver, and her pinions with the shimmer of gold.
Psalms 68: 14 (68:15) When the Almighty scattereth kings therein, it snoweth in Zalmon.
Psalms 68: 15 (68:16) A mountain of God is the mountain of Bashan; a mountain of peaks is the mountain of Bashan.
Psalms 68: 16 (68:17) Why look ye askance, ye mountains of peaks, at the mountain which God hath desired for His abode? Yea, the LORD will dwell therein for ever.
Psalms 68: 17 (68:18) The chariots of God are myriads, even thousands upon thousands; the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in holiness.
The Tanach |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Hamlet by William Shakespeare: Ham. There's another: why might not that bee the
Scull of a Lawyer? where be his Quiddits now? his
Quillets? his Cases? his Tenures, and his Tricks? why
doe's he suffer this rude knaue now to knocke him about
the Sconce with a dirty Shouell, and will not tell him of
his Action of Battery? hum. This fellow might be in's
time a great buyer of Land, with his Statutes, his Recognizances,
his Fines, his double Vouchers, his Recoueries:
Is this the fine of his Fines, and the recouery of his Recoueries,
to haue his fine Pate full of fine Dirt? will his
Vouchers vouch him no more of his Purchases, and double
Hamlet |
