| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Octopus by Frank Norris: cities marked upon it had been absorbed by that huge, sprawling
organism, with its ruddy arteries converging to a central point.
It was as though the State had been sucked white and colourless,
and against this pallid background the red arteries of the
monster stood out, swollen with life-blood, reaching out to
infinity, gorged to bursting; an excrescence, a gigantic parasite
fattening upon the life-blood of an entire commonwealth.
However, in an upper corner of the map appeared the names of the
three new commissioners: Jones McNish for the first district,
Lyman Derrick for the second, and James Darrell for the third.
Nominated in the Democratic State convention in the fall of the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tanach: Jeremiah 6: 17 And I set watchmen over you: 'Attend to the sound of the horn', but they said: 'We will not attend.'
Jeremiah 6: 18 Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is against them.
Jeremiah 6: 19 Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not attended unto My words, and as for My teaching, they have rejected it.
Jeremiah 6: 20 To what purpose is to Me the frankincense that cometh from Sheba, and the sweet cane, from a far country? Your burnt-offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing unto Me.
Jeremiah 6: 21 Therefore thus saith the LORD: Behold, I will lay stumblingblocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall stumble against them, the neighbour and his friend, and they shall perish.
Jeremiah 6: 22 Thus saith the LORD: Behold, a people cometh from the north country, and a great nation shall be roused from the uttermost parts of the earth.
Jeremiah 6: 23 They lay hold on bow and spear, they are cruel, and have no compassion; their voice is like the roaring sea, and they ride upon horses; set in array, as a man for war, against thee, O daughter of Zion.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Vendetta by Honore de Balzac: really surprising."
"Nothing could be more natural," replied the young man, on whose face
Piombo's flaming eyes now rested. "Nina was my sister."
"Are you Luigi Porta?" asked the old man.
"Yes."
Bartolomeo rose, tottered, was forced to lean against a chair and
beckon to his wife. Elisa Piombo came to him. Then the two old people,
silently, each supporting the other, left the room, abandoning their
daughter with a sort of horror.
Luigi Porta, bewildered, looked at Ginevra, who had turned as white as
a marble statue, and stood gazing at the door through which her father
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