| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: And so, when I found a lone house among the snow, and heard a babble
of childish voices from within, I struck off into a steep road
leading downwards to the sea. Dunure lies close under the steep
hill: a haven among the rocks, a breakwater in consummate disrepair,
much apparatus for drying nets, and a score or so of fishers' houses.
Hard by, a few shards of ruined castle overhang the sea, a few
vaults, and one tall gable honeycombed with windows. The snow lay on
the beach to the tidemark. It was daubed on to the sills of the
ruin: it roosted in the crannies of the rock like white sea-birds;
even on outlying reefs there would be a little cock of snow, like a
toy lighthouse. Everything was grey and white in a cold and dolorous
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne: difficulty of understanding it increased but the desire.
I got my dinner; and after I had enlightened my mind with a bottle
of Burgundy; I at it again, - and, after two or three hours poring
upon it, with almost as deep attention as ever Gruter or Jacob Spon
did upon a nonsensical inscription, I thought I made sense of it;
but to make sure of it, the best way, I imagined, was to turn it
into English, and see how it would look then; - so I went on
leisurely, as a trifling man does, sometimes writing a sentence, -
then taking a turn or two, - and then looking how the world went,
out of the window; so that it was nine o'clock at night before I
had done it. - I then began and read it as follows.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: cleansed you from all your iniquities I will also cause you to dwell in
the cities, and the wastes shall be builded.
EZE 36:34 And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay
desolate in the sight of all that passed by.
EZE 36:35 And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become
like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities
are become fenced, and are inhabited.
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
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