| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tanach: 1_Samuel 31: 12 all the valiant men arose, and went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth-shan; and they came to Jabesh, and burnt them there.
1_Samuel 31: 13 And they took their bones, and buried them under the tamarisk-tree in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
2_Samuel 1: 1 AND IT came to pass after the death of Saul, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had abode two days in Ziklag;
2_Samuel 1: 2 it came even to pass on the third day, that, behold, a man came out of the camp from Saul with his clothes rent, and earth upon his head; and so it was, when he came to David, that he fell to the earth, and prostrated himself.
2_Samuel 1: 3 And David said unto him: 'From whence comest thou?' And he said unto him: 'Out of the camp of Israel am I escaped.'
2_Samuel 1: 4 And David said unto him: 'How went the matter? I pray thee, tell me.' And he answered: 'The people are fled from the battle, and many of the people also are fallen and dead; and Saul and Jonathan his son are dead also.'
2_Samuel 1: 5 And David said unto the young man that told him: 'How knowest thou that Saul and Jonathan his son are dead?'
2_Samuel 1: 6 And the young man that told him said: 'As I happened by chance upon mount Gilboa, behold, Saul leaned upon his spear; and, lo, the chariots and the horsemen pressed hard upon him.
2_Samuel 1: 7 And when he looked behind him, he saw me, and called unto me. And I answered: Here am I.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson: the affairs of kings. You are to hang for a dirty murder about boddle-
pieces. Your personal part in it, the treacherous one of holding the
poor wretch in talk, your accomplices a pack of ragged Highland
gillies. And it can be shown, my great Mr. Balfour - it can be shown,
and it WILL be shown, trust ME that has a finger in the pie - it can be
shown, and shall be shown, that you were paid to do it. I think I can
see the looks go round the court when I adduce my evidence, and it
shall appear that you, a young man of education, let yourself be
corrupted to this shocking act for a suit of cast clothes, a bottle of
Highland spirits, and three-and-fivepence-halfpenny in copper money."
There was a touch of the truth in these words that knocked me like a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lesson of the Master by Henry James: very remarkable. You've written a very distinguished book."
"And how do you know it?" Paul asked.
"Why, my dear fellow, it's in the air, it's in the papers, it's
everywhere." St. George spoke with the immediate familiarity of a
confrere - a tone that seemed to his neighbour the very rustle of
the laurel. "You're on all men's lips and, what's better, on all
women's. And I've just been reading your book."
"Just? You hadn't read it this afternoon," said Overt.
"How do you know that?"
"I think you should know how I know it," the young man laughed.
"I suppose Miss Fancourt told you."
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