| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson: "Good-evening, Mr. Balfour," said he.
And, "Good-evening, Uncle Ebenezer," said I.
And, "It's a braw nicht, Mr. Balfour" added Torrance.
Never a word said my uncle, neither black nor white; but just sat
where he was on the top door-step and stared upon us like a man
turned to stone. Alan filched away his blunderbuss; and the
lawyer, taking him by the arm, plucked him up from the doorstep,
led him into the kitchen, whither we all followed, and set him
down in a chair beside the hearth, where the fire was out and
only a rush-light burning.
There we all looked upon him for a while, exulting greatly in our
Kidnapped |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: Now she is there, how will she specify
Here is the best and safest passage in?
REIGNIER.
By thrusting out a torch from yonder tower;
Which, once discern'd, shows that her meaning is,
No way to that, for weakness, which she enter'd.
[Enter La Pucelle, on the top, thrusting out
a torch burning.]
PUCELLE.
Behold, this is the happy wedding torch
That joineth Rouen unto her countrymen,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tanach: 1_Samuel 21: 12 (21:13) And David laid up these words in his heart, and was sore afraid of Achish the king of Gath.
1_Samuel 21: 13 (21:14) And he changed his demeanour before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard.
1_Samuel 21: 14 (21:15) Then said Achish unto his servants: 'Lo, when ye see a man that is mad, wherefore do ye bring him to me?
1_Samuel 21: 15 (21:16) Do I lack madmen, that ye have brought this fellow to play the madman in my presence? shall this fellow come into my house?'
1_Samuel 22: 1 David therefore departed thence, and escaped to the cave of Adullam; and when his brethren and all his father's house heard it, they went down thither to him.
1_Samuel 22: 2 And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became captain over them; and there were with him about four hundred men.
1_Samuel 22: 3 And David went thence to Mizpeh of Moab; and he said unto the king of Moab: 'Let my father and my mother, I pray thee, come forth, and be with you, till I know what God will do for me.'
1_Samuel 22: 4 And he brought them before the king of Moab; and they dwelt with him all the while that David was in the stronghold.
1_Samuel 22: 5 And the prophet Gad said unto David: 'Abide not in the stronghold; depart, and get thee into the land of Judah.' Then David departed, and came into the forest of Hereth.
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