| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield: head, and the doctor's finger drew a circle on his back.
"Now, if we were to cut him open here, Mrs. Parker," said the doctor,
"you'd find his lungs chock-a-block with white powder. Breathe, my good
fellow!" And Mrs. Parker never knew for certain whether she saw or whether
she fancied she saw a great fan of white dust come out of her poor dead
husband's lips...
But the struggle she'd had to bring up those six little children and keep
herself to herself. Terrible it had been! Then, just when they were old
enough to go to school her husband's sister came to stop with them to help
things along, and she hadn't been there more than two months when she fell
down a flight of steps and hurt her spine. And for five years Ma Parker
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tanach: Exodus 29: 25 And thou shalt take them from their hands, and make them smoke on the altar upon the burnt-offering, for a sweet savour before the LORD; it is an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
Exodus 29: 26 And thou shalt take the breast of Aaron's ram of consecration, and wave it for a wave-offering before the LORD; and it shall be thy portion.
Exodus 29: 27 And thou shalt sanctify the breast of the wave-offering, and the thigh of the heave-offering, which is waved, and which is heaved up, of the ram of consecration, even of that which is Aaron's, and of that which is his sons'.
Exodus 29: 28 And it shall be for Aaron and his sons as a due for ever from the children of Israel; for it is a heave-offering; and it shall be a heave-offering from the children of Israel of their sacrifices of peace-offerings, even their heave-offering unto the LORD.
Exodus 29: 29 And the holy garments of Aaron shall be for his sons after him, to be anointed in them, and to be consecrated in them.
Exodus 29: 30 Seven days shall the son that is priest in his stead put them on, even he who cometh into the tent of meeting to minister in the holy place.
Exodus 29: 31 And thou shalt take the ram of consecration, and seethe its flesh in a holy place.
Exodus 29: 32 And Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the bread that is in the basket, at the door of the tent of meeting.
Exodus 29: 33 And they shall eat those things wherewith atonement was made, to consecrate and to sanctify them; but a stranger shall not eat thereof, because they are holy.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Sons of the Soil by Honore de Balzac: "Perhaps he hasn't eaten anything to-day," said the countess, touched
by his misery. "Give him some bread and the rest of that chicken; let
him have his breakfast," she added, looking at the footman. "Where do
you sleep, my child?"
"Anywhere, madame; under the stars in summer, and wherever they'll let
us in winter."
"How old are you?"
"Twelve."
"There is still time to bring him up to better ways," said the
countess to her husband.
"He will make a good soldier," said the general, gruffly; "he is well
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