| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Middlemarch by George Eliot: it comes pretty near to it when you refuse to say you didn't set
a slander going. It's this sort of thing---this tyrannical spirit,
wanting to play bishop and banker everywhere--it's this sort of thing
makes a man's name stink."
"Vincy, if you insist on quarrelling with me, it will be exceedingly
painful to Harriet as well as myself," said Mr. Bulstrode,
with a trifle more eagerness and paleness than usual.
"I don't want to quarrel. It's for my interest--and perhaps
for yours too--that we should be friends. I bear you no grudge;
I think no worse of you than I do of other people. A man who half
starves himself, and goes the length in family prayers, and so on,
Middlemarch |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tanach: Numbers 17: 9 (17:24) And Moses brought out all the rods from before the LORD unto all the children of Israel; and they looked, and took every man his rod.
Numbers 17: 10 (17:25) And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Put back the rod of Aaron before the testimony, to be kept there, for a token against the rebellious children; that there may be made an end of their murmurings against Me, that they die not.'
Numbers 17: 11 (17:26) Thus did Moses; as the LORD commanded him, so did he.
Numbers 17: 12 (17:27) And the children of Israel spoke unto Moses, saying: 'Behold, we perish, we are undone, we are all undone.
Numbers 17: 13 (17:28) Every one that cometh near, that cometh near unto the tabernacle of the LORD, is to die; shall we wholly perish?'
Numbers 18: 1 And the LORD said unto Aaron: 'Thou and thy sons and thy fathers' house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary; and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.
Numbers 18: 2 And thy brethren also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of thy father, bring thou near with thee, that they may be joined unto thee, and minister unto thee, thou and thy sons with thee being before the tent of the testimony.
Numbers 18: 3 And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of all the Tent; only they shall not come nigh unto the holy furniture and unto the altar, that they die not, neither they, nor ye.
The Tanach |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad: "Nothing that is not just and proper. He promised to deliver to
us a man who in time of profound peace took the lives of innocent
men to escape the punishment he deserved for breaking the law.
He planned his mischief on a large scale. It is not his fault if
it failed, partially. Of course you have heard of Dain Maroola.
Your father secured him, I understand. We know he escaped up
this river. Perhaps you--"
"And he killed white men!" interrupted Nina.
"I regret to say they were white. Yes, two white men lost their
lives through that scoundrel's freak."
"Two only!" exclaimed Nina.
Almayer's Folly |
