| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: that rope! Within the room the men were searching. He
could hear Maenck directing them. Only a thin portiere
screened him from their view. It was but a matter of seconds
before they would investigate the window through which
Maenck knew the king had found ingress.
Yes! It had come.
"Look to the window," commanded Maenck. "He may
have gone as he came."
Two of the soldiers crossed the room toward the casement.
From above Joseph was lowering the rope; but it was too
late. The men would be at the window before he could
The Mad King |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from St. Ives by Robert Louis Stevenson: the posts with four horses, presumably with open pockets, and in
the company of the most entrancing little creature conceivable, to
have come down so far as to be laughed at by his own postillions,
was only to be explained on the double hypothesis, that he was a
fool and no gentleman.
I have said they were man and woman. I should have said man and
child. She was certainly not more than seventeen, pretty as an
angel, just plump enough to damn a saint, and dressed in various
shades of blue, from her stockings to her saucy cap, in a kind of
taking gamut, the top note of which she flung me in a beam from her
too appreciative eye. There was no doubt about the case: I saw it
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tanach: Deuteronomy 22: 17 and, lo, he hath laid wanton charges, saying: I found not in thy daughter the tokens of virginity; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity.' And they shall spread the garment before the elders of the city.
Deuteronomy 22: 18 And the elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him.
Deuteronomy 22: 19 And they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel; and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.
Deuteronomy 22: 20 But if this thing be true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the damsel;
Deuteronomy 22: 21 then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die; because she hath wrought a wanton deed in Israel, to play the harlot in her father's house; so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee.
Deuteronomy 22: 22 If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die, the man that lay with the woman, and the woman; so shalt thou put away the evil from Israel.
Deuteronomy 22: 23 If there be a damsel that is a virgin betrothed unto a man, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;
The Tanach |
