| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The House of Dust by Conrad Aiken: But drank his coffee in silence, and heard in his ears
That horrible whistle of wind, and felt his breath
Sucked out of him, and saw the tower flash by
And the small tree swell beneath him . . .
He patted his boy on the head, and kissed his wife,
Looked quickly around the room, to remember it,--
And so went out . . . For once, he forgot his pail.
Something had changed--but it was not the street--
The street was just the same--it was himself.
Puddles flashed in the sun. In the pawn-shop door
The same old black cat winked green amber eyes;
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tanach: Joshua 12: 4 and the border of Og king of Bashan, of the remnant of the Rephaim, who dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,
Joshua 12: 5 and ruled in mount Hermon, and in Salcah, and in all Bashan, unto the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and half Gilead, even unto the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.
Joshua 12: 6 Moses the servant of the LORD and the children of Israel smote them; and Moses the servant of the LORD gave it for a possession unto the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.
Joshua 12: 7 And these are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the children of Israel smote beyond the Jordan westward, from Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon even unto the bare mountain, that goeth up to Seir; and Joshua gave it unto the tribes of Israel for a possession according to their divisions;
Joshua 12: 8 in the hill-country, and in the Lowland, and in the Arabah, and in the slopes, and in the wilderness, and in the South; the Hittite, the Amorite, and the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:
Joshua 12: 9 the king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is beside Beth-el, one;
Joshua 12: 10 the king of Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron, one;
Joshua 12: 11 the king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish, one;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Wife, et al by Anton Chekhov: eyes at everybody who dared to look at him. Pobyedimsky was the
only one who felt himself in his element. He was neither
terrified nor delighted, and merely from time to time, when he
heard the history of the Gundasov family, said:
"Yes, it will be pleasant to have some one fresh to talk to."
My tutor was looked upon among us as an exceptional nature. He
was a young man of twenty, with a pimply face, shaggy locks, a
low forehead, and an unusually long nose. His nose was so big
that when he wanted to look close at anything he had to put his
head on one side like a bird. To our thinking, there was not a
man in the province cleverer, more cultivated, or more stylish.
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