| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Plutarch's Lives by A. H. Clough: general without the wood. He, when he has received it, can read
nothing of the writing, because the words and letters are not
connected, but all broken up; but taking his own staff, he winds the
slip of the scroll about it, so that this folding, restoring all the
parts into the same order that they were in before, and putting what
comes first into connection with what follows, brings the whole
consecutive contents to view round the outside. And this scroll is
called a staff, after the name of the wood, as a thing measured is by
the name of the measure.
But Lysander, when the staff came to him to the Hellespont, was
troubled, and fearing Pharnabazus's accusations most, made haste to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Whirligigs by O. Henry: suits were not so plentiful in Nopal!
Thus keeping a speculative watch on all persons of
possible managerial aspect, Octavia, with a catching
breath and a start of surprise, suddenly became aware of
Teddy Westlake hurrying along the platform in the
direction of the train -- of Teddy Westlake or his sun-
browned ghost in cheviot, boots and leather-girdled hat
-- Theodore Westlake, Jr., amateur polo (almost)
champion, all-round butterfly and cumberer of the soil;
but a broader, surer, more emphasized and determined
Teddy than the one she had known a year ago when last
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: from it the best of it: neither shall ye pollute the holy things of the
children of Israel, lest ye die.
NUM 19:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
NUM 19:2 This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD hath
commanded, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring
thee a red heifer without spot, wherein is no blemish, and upon which
never came yoke:
NUM 19:3 And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest, that he may
bring her forth without the camp, and one shall slay her before his
face:
NUM 19:4 And Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his
King James Bible |
