| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Three Taverns by Edwin Arlington Robinson: And are they to praise their father for his insight if we die?
Do you hear them? Do you hear them overhead -- the children -- singing?
Do you hear them? Do you hear the children?"
"Damn the children!"
"Why?
What have THEY done? . . . Well, then, -- do it. . . . Do it now,
and have it over."
"Oh, you devil! . . . Oh, you. . . ."
"No, I'm not a devil, I'm a prophet --
One who sees the end already of so much that one end more
Would have now the small importance of one other small illusion,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tanach: Genesis 3: 23 Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
Genesis 3: 24 So He drove out the man; and He placed at the east of the garden of Eden the cherubim, and the flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way to the tree of life.
Genesis 4:1 And the man knew Eve his wife; and she conceived and bore Cain, and said: 'I have gotten a man with the help of the LORD.'
Genesis 4: 2 And again she bore his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
Genesis 4: 3 And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD.
Genesis 4: 4 And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering;
Genesis 4: 5 but unto Cain and to his offering He had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.
Genesis 4: 6 And the LORD said unto Cain: 'Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?
Genesis 4: 7 If thou doest well, shall it not be lifted up? and if thou doest not well, sin coucheth at the door; and unto thee is its desire, but thou mayest rule over it.'
Genesis 4: 8 And Cain spoke unto Abel his brother. And it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.
Genesis 4: 9 And the LORD said unto Cain: 'Where is Abel thy brother?' And he said: 'I know not; am I my brother's keeper?'
The Tanach |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lady Baltimore by Owen Wister: letter that you have not first read to yourself. Had I observed this
rule--but listen:--
It so happened that Aunt Carola was at luncheon with us when the postman
brought John Mayrant's answer to my inquiry, and at the sight of his
handwriting I thoughtlessly exclaimed to my Aunt that here at last we had
all there was to be known concerning the Bombos in South Carolina; with
this I tore open the missive and embarked upon a reading of it for the
edification of all present. I pass over the beginning of John's
communication, because it was merely the observations of a man upon his
honeymoon, and was confined to laudatory accounts of scenery and weather,
and the beauty of all life when once one saw it with his eyes truly
opened.
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