| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: CH1 8:25 And Iphedeiah, and Penuel, the sons of Shashak;
CH1 8:26 And Shamsherai, and Shehariah, and Athaliah,
CH1 8:27 And Jaresiah, and Eliah, and Zichri, the sons of Jeroham.
CH1 8:28 These were heads of the fathers, by their generations, chief
men. These dwelt in Jerusalem.
CH1 8:29 And at Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon; whose wife's name
was Maachah:
CH1 8:30 And his firstborn son Abdon, and Zur, and Kish, and Baal, and
Nadab,
CH1 8:31 And Gedor, and Ahio, and Zacher.
CH1 8:32 And Mikloth begat Shimeah. And these also dwelt with their
King James Bible |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Silas Marner by George Eliot: human experience, Nancy's beauty has a heightened interest. Often
the soul is ripened into fuller goodness while age has spread an
ugly film, so that mere glances can never divine the preciousness of
the fruit. But the years have not been so cruel to Nancy. The firm
yet placid mouth, the clear veracious glance of the brown eyes,
speak now of a nature that has been tested and has kept its highest
qualities; and even the costume, with its dainty neatness and
purity, has more significance now the coquetries of youth can have
nothing to do with it.
Mr. and Mrs. Godfrey Cass (any higher title has died away from
Raveloe lips since the old Squire was gathered to his fathers and
Silas Marner |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Options by O. Henry: qualities.
"I'm awfully weary," she said, one evening, when we three musketeers
of the mesquite were in the little parlor, "of having compliments on
my looks paid to me. I know I'm not beautiful."
(Bud Cunningham told me afterward that it was all he could do to keep
from calling her a liar when she said that.)
"I'm only a little Middle-Western girl," went on Ileen, "who justs
wants to be simple and neat, and tries to help her father make a
humble living."
(Old Man Hinkle was shipping a thousand silver dollars a month, clear
profit, to a bank in San Antonio.[)]
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