| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: into captivity: and thou shalt come to Babylon, and there thou shalt
die, and shalt be buried there, thou, and all thy friends, to whom thou
hast prophesied lies.
JER 20:7 O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived; thou art
stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one
mocketh me.
JER 20:8 For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil;
because the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and a
derision, daily.
JER 20:9 Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any
more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut
King James Bible |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: gun. The hail was in German; the Samoans knew not what it meant,
but took the precaution to jump overboard and swim for land. Two
volleys and some dropping shot were poured upon them in the water;
but they dived, scattered, and came to land unhurt in different
quarters of Matautu. The volleys, fired inshore, raked the
highway, a British house was again pierced by numerous bullets, and
these sudden sounds of war scattered consternation through the
town.
Two British subjects, Hetherington-Carruthers, a solicitor, and
Maben, a land-surveyor - the first being in particular a man well
versed in the native mind and language - hastened at once to their
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne: thresholds with the early grass springing up about them; the
garden-plots, black with freshly-turned earth; the wheel-track,
little worn, and even in the market-place margined with green on
either side -- all were visible, but with a singularity of aspect
that seemed to give another moral interpretation to the things of
this world
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The Scarlet Letter |
