| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton: her: she knew only that she got up each morning with the sense of
having to push the leaden hours up the same long steep of pain.
Mr. Ramy came daily now. Every evening he and his betrothed
went out for a stroll around the Square, and when Evelina came in
her cheeks were always pink. "He's kissed her under that tree at
the corner, away from the lamp-post," Ann Eliza said to herself,
with sudden insight into unconjectured things. On Sundays they
usually went for the whole afternoon to the Central Park, and Ann
Eliza, from her seat in the mortal hush of the back room, followed
step by step their long slow beatific walk.
There had been, as yet, no allusion to their marriage, except
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tanach: Genesis 46: 10 And the sons of Simeon: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman.
Genesis 46: 11 And the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
Genesis 46: 12 And the sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.
Genesis 46: 13 And the sons of Issachar: Tola, and Puvah, and Iob, and Shimron.
Genesis 46: 14 And the sons of Zebulun: Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel.
Genesis 46: 15 These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore unto Jacob in Paddan-aram, with his daughter Dinah; all the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty and three.
Genesis 46: 16 And the sons of Gad: Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli.
Genesis 46: 17 And the sons of Asher: Imnah, and Ishvah, and Ishvi, and Beriah, and Serah their sister; and the sons of Beriah: Heber, and Malchiel.
Genesis 46: 18 These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter, and these she bore unto Jacob, even sixteen souls.
Genesis 46: 19 The sons of Rachel Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin.
Genesis 46: 20 And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath the daughter of Poti-phera priest of On bore unto him.
The Tanach |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Chouans by Honore de Balzac: say, the miserable vehicle which was then used as the mail-coach drew
up before the inn of the Trois Maures, in the middle of the main
street of Alencon. The sound of the wheels brought the landlord to the
door. No one in Alencon could have expected the arrival of the mail-
coach at the Trois Maures, for the murderous attack upon the coach at
Mortagne was already known, and so many people followed it along the
street that the two women, anxious to escape the curiosity of the
crowd, ran quickly into the kitchen, which forms the inevitable
antechamber to all Western inns. The landlord was about to follow
them, after examining the coach, when the postilion caught him by the
arm.
The Chouans |
