| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring
forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will
bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold
thee.
EZE 28:19 All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished
at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more.
EZE 28:20 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
EZE 28:21 Son of man, set thy face against Zidon, and prophesy against
it,
EZE 28:22 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee,
O Zidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of thee: and they shall
King James Bible |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Muse of the Department by Honore de Balzac: because she was the only person for ten leagues round who owned an
album. Within the last two years, however, several young ladies had
acquired such books, in which they made their friends and
acquaintances write more or less absurd quotations or sentiments. You
who spend your lives in collecting autographs, simple and happy souls,
like Dutch tulip fanciers, you will excuse Dinah when, in her fear of
not keeping her guests more than two days, she begged Bianchon to
enrich the volume she handed to him with a few lines of his writing.
The doctor made Lousteau smile by showing him this sentence on the
first page:
"What makes the populace dangerous is that it has in its pocket an
The Muse of the Department |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: Her efforts might still be directed to Philip sober.
"I sent for you to congratulate you," she answered, with a smile.
"You are a bigger man than I thought. You have done what you said
you would do, and I presume you can very shortly go out of
mourning."
He radiated vanity, seemed to visibly expand "Do y'u go in when I
go out?" he asked brutally.
She laughed lightly. "Hardly. But it does seem as if I'm unlucky
in my foremen. They all seem to have engagements across the
divide."
"I'll get y u another."
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