| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: which were in the house of God.
CH2 23:10 And he set all the people, every man having his weapon in his
hand, from the right side of the temple to the left side of the temple,
along by the altar and the temple, by the king round about.
CH2 23:11 Then they brought out the king's son, and put upon him the
crown, and gave him the testimony, and made him king. And Jehoiada and
his sons anointed him, and said, God save the king.
CH2 23:12 Now when Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and
praising the king, she came to the people into the house of the LORD:
CH2 23:13 And she looked, and, behold, the king stood at his pillar at
the entering in, and the princes and the trumpets by the king: and all
King James Bible |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy: the night he stole horses from the pasture ground
in the village Kolotovka. He generally preferred
to steal horses from landowners or tradespeople.
But this was a harder job, and when he had no
chance of success he did not mind robbing peasants
too. In Kolotovka he drove off the horses with-
out making sure whose they were. He did not
go himself to the spot, but sent a young and clever
fellow, Gerassim, to do the stealing for him. The
peasants only got to know of the theft at dawn;
they rushed in all directions to hunt for the rob-
The Forged Coupon |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Main Street by Sinclair Lewis: on the prairie, as I thought first, but as large as New York.
In New York I wouldn't know more than forty or fifty people,
and I know that many here. Go on! Say what you're
thinking."
"Well, my dear, if I DID take all your notions seriously,
it would be pretty discouraging. Imagine how a person
would feel, after working hard for years and helping to build
up a nice town, to have you airily flit in and simply say
`Rotten!' Think that's fair?"
"Why not? It must be just as discouraging for the Gopher
Prairieite to see Venice and make comparisons."
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