| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tanach: Numbers 34: 22 And of the tribe of the children of Dan a prince, Bukki the son of Jogli.
Numbers 34: 23 Of the children of Joseph: of the tribe of the children of Manasseh a prince, Hanniel the son of Ephod;
Numbers 34: 24 and of the tribe of the children of Ephraim a prince, Kemuel the son of Shiphtan.
Numbers 34: 25 And of the tribe of the children of Zebulun a prince, Eli-zaphan the son of Parnach.
Numbers 34: 26 And of the tribe of the children of Issachar a prince, Paltiel the son of Azzan.
Numbers 34: 27 And of the tribe of the children of Asher a prince, Ahihud the son of Shelomi.
Numbers 34: 28 And of the tribe of the children of Naphtali a prince, Pedahel the son of Ammihud.
Numbers 34: 29 These are they whom the LORD commanded to divide the inheritance unto the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.'
Numbers 35: 1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying:
Numbers 35: 2 'Command the children of Israel, that they give unto the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and open land round about the cities shall ye give unto the Levites.
The Tanach |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Prufrock/Other Observations by T. S. Eliot: You hardly know when you are coming back,
You will find so much to learn."
My smile falls heavily among the bric-a-brac.
"Perhaps you can write to me."
My self-possession flares up for a second;
This is as I had reckoned.
"I have been wondering frequently of late
(But our beginnings never know our ends!)
Why we have not developed into friends."
I feel like one who smiles, and turning shall remark
Suddenly, his expression in a glass.
Prufrock/Other Observations |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Taras Bulba and Other Tales by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol: the Ukraine as of yore by blind old men, to the soft tinkling of the
native guitar, to the people thronging round them--according to the
taste of that warlike and troublous time, of leagues and battles
prevailing in the Ukraine after the union. Everything was cleanly
smeared with coloured clay. On the walls hung sabres, hunting-whips,
nets for birds, fishing-nets, guns, elaborately carved powder-horns,
gilded bits for horses, and tether-ropes with silver plates. The small
window had round dull panes, through which it was impossible to see
except by opening the one moveable one. Around the windows and doors
red bands were painted. On shelves in one corner stood jugs, bottles,
and flasks of green and blue glass, carved silver cups, and gilded
Taras Bulba and Other Tales |
