| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Edition of The Ambassadors by Henry James: feel quite enough, as I hinted yesterday, your abysses. Spent!" he
echoed. "If that's how you're arranging so subtly to send me I
thank you for the warning."
For a minute, amid the pleasantness--poetry in tariffed items, but
all the more, for guests already convicted, a challenge to
consumption--they smiled at each other in confirmed fellowship. "Do
you call it subtly? It's a plain poor tale. Besides, you're a
special case."
"Oh special cases--that's weak!" She was weak enough, further
still, to defer her journey and agree to accompany the gentlemen on
their own, might a separate carriage mark her independence; though
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tanach: Genesis 41: 20 And the lean and ill-favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine.
Genesis 41: 21 And when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but they were still ill-favoured as at the beginning. So I awoke.
Genesis 41: 22 And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears came up upon one stalk, full and good.
Genesis 41: 23 And, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.
Genesis 41: 24 And the thin ears swallowed up the seven good ears. And I told it unto the magicians; but there was none that could declare it to me.'
Genesis 41: 25 And Joseph said unto Pharaoh: 'The dream of Pharaoh is one; what God is about to do He hath declared unto Pharaoh.
Genesis 41: 26 The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one.
Genesis 41: 27 And the seven lean and ill-favoured kine that came up after them are seven years, and also the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind; they shall be seven years of famine.
Genesis 41: 28 That is the thing which I spoke unto Pharaoh: what God is about to do He hath shown unto Pharaoh.
Genesis 41: 29 Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt.
Genesis 41: 30 And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land;
The Tanach |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic: upon him that there was a connected story in all this;
and suddenly he came upon it, out in the open, as it were.
It was the story of how a deeply devout young man,
trained from his earliest boyhood for the sacred office,
and desiring passionately nothing but to be worthy of it,
came to a point where, at infinite cost of pain to himself
and of anguish to those dearest to him, he had to declare
that he could no longer believe at all in revealed religion.
Theron Ware read this all with an excited interest
which no book had ever stirred in him before. Much of
it he read over and over again, to make sure that he
The Damnation of Theron Ware |
