| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: grave and touching urbanity that so well became him.
'I am pleased, madam, to welcome you to my poor house,' he
said; 'and shall be still more so, if what were else a barren
courtesy and a pleasure personal to myself, shall prove to be
of serious benefit to you and Mr. Desborough.'
'Your Highness,' replied Clara, 'I must begin with thanks; it
is like what I have heard of you, that you should thus take
up the case of the unfortunate; and as for my Harry, he is
worthy of all that you can do.' She paused.
'But for yourself?' suggested Mr. Godall - 'it was thus you
were about to continue, I believe.'
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: EZE 36:36 Then the heathen that are left round about you shall know
that I the LORD build the ruined places, and plant that that was
desolate: I the LORD have spoken it, and I will do it.
EZE 36:37 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will yet for this be enquired of
by the house of Israel, to do it for them; I will increase them with men
like a flock.
EZE 36:38 As the holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn
feasts; so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men: and they
shall know that I am the LORD.
EZE 37:1 The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the
spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane: a boxing match in Williamsburg, and called for him in the evening.
Maggie observed Pete.
He sat on a table in the Johnson home and dangled his checked
legs with an enticing nonchalance. His hair was curled down over
his forehead in an oiled bang. His rather pugged nose seemed to
revolt from contact with a bristling moustache of short, wire-like
hairs. His blue double-breasted coat, edged with black braid,
buttoned close to a red puff tie, and his patent-leather shoes
looked like murder-fitted weapons.
His mannerisms stamped him as a man who had a correct sense of
his personal superiority. There was valor and contempt for
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets |
