| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Fantastic Fables by Ambrose Bierce: connection with this case?"
After a moment's silence the Attorney said, meekly:
"I thought my client might perhaps have found it."
The Seeker and the Sought
A POLITICIAN seeing a fat Turkey which he wanted for dinner, baited
a hook with a grain of corn and dragged it before the fowl at the
end of a long and almost invisible line. When the Turkey had
swallowed the hook, the Politician ran, drawing the creature after
him.
"Fellow-citizens," he cried, addressing some turkey-breeders whom
he met, "you observe that the man does not seek the bird, but the
Fantastic Fables |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: could not bring herself to an admission that Smith-Oldwick
would die. She was very fond of him, in fact her great regret
was that she did not love him, but she knew that she did not.
It seemed to her that it could be such an easy thing for any
girl to love Lieutenant Harold Percy Smith-Oldwick -- an Eng-
lish officer and a gentleman, the scion of an old family and
himself a man of ample means, young, good-looking and af-
fable. What more could a girl ask for than to have such a
man love her and that she possessed Smith-Oldwick's love
there was no doubt in Bertha Kircher's mind.
She sighed, and then, laying her hand impulsively on his
Tarzan the Untamed |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: transgression, a seed of falsehood.
ISA 57:5 Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree,
slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?
ISA 57:6 Among the smooth stones of the stream is thy portion; they,
they are thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink offering, thou
hast offered a meat offering. Should I receive comfort in these?
ISA 57:7 Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even
thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.
ISA 57:8 Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy
remembrance: for thou hast discovered thyself to another than me, and
art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee a covenant with
King James Bible |
