| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers by Jonathan Swift: the midst of the many useful services he is daily paying to the
publick. Was it ever heard, even in Turkey or Algiers, that a
state-astrologer was banter'd out of his life by an ignorant
impostor, or bawl'd out of the world by a pack of villanous,
deep-mouth'd hawkers? Though I print almanacks, and publish
advertisements; though I produce certificates under the ministers
and church-wardens hands I am alive, and attest the same on oath
at quarter-sessions, out comes a full and true relation of the
death and interment of John Partridge; Truth is bore down,
attestations neglected, the testimony of sober persons despised,
and a man is looked upon by his neighbours as if he had been
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tanach: Exodus 40: 22 And he put the table in the tent of meeting, upon the side of the tabernacle northward, without the veil.
Exodus 40: 23 And he set a row of bread in order upon it before the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses.
Exodus 40: 24 And he put the candlestick in the tent of meeting, over against the table, on the side of the tabernacle southward.
Exodus 40: 25 And he lighted the lamps before the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses.
Exodus 40: 26 And he put the golden altar in the tent of meeting before the veil;
Exodus 40: 27 and he burnt thereon incense of sweet spices; as the LORD commanded Moses.
Exodus 40: 28 And he put the screen of the door to the tabernacle.
Exodus 40: 29 And the altar of burnt-offering he set at the door of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, and offered upon it the burnt-offering and the meal-offering; as the LORD commanded Moses. Exodus 40: 30 And he set the laver between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water therein, wherewith to wash;
Exodus 40: 31 that Moses and Aaron and his sons might wash their hands and their feet thereat;
Exodus 40: 32 when they went into the tent of meeting, and when they came near unto the altar, they should wash; as the LORD commanded Moses.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Summer by Edith Wharton: trunks down to Hepburn, the sexton's old white horse
grazing on the bank across the way, as if she looked at
these familiar sights from the other side of the grave.
She was roused from her apathy by seeing Ally Hawes
come out of the Frys' gate and walk slowly toward the
red house with her uneven limping step. At the sight
Charity recovered her severed contact with reality. She
divined that Ally was coming to hear about her day: no
one else was in the secret of the trip to Nettleton,
and it had flattered Ally profoundly to be allowed to
know of it.
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