| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne: catching off the notary's castor, and legitimating the capture with
the boatman's adage.
The poor notary crossed the bridge, and passing along the Rue de
Dauphine into the fauxbourgs of St. Germain, lamented himself as he
walked along in this manner: -
Luckless man that I am! said the notary, to be the sport of
hurricanes all my days: - to be born to have the storm of ill
language levell'd against me and my profession wherever I go; to be
forced into marriage by the thunder of the church to a tempest of a
woman; - to be driven forth out of my house by domestic winds, and
despoil'd of my castor by pontific ones! - to be here, bareheaded,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from An International Episode by Henry James: for my not going."
"I don't see why. There is enough for both of us."
"I don't care to be a witness of your--your reckless passion,"
said Percy Beaumont.
Lord Lambeth looked at him with a cold eye and for a moment said nothing.
"It's not so obvious as you might suppose," he rejoined dryly,
"considering what a demonstrative beggar I am."
"I don't want to know anything about it--nothing whatever,"
said Beaumont. "Your mother asks me everytime she sees me whether
I believe you are really lost--and Lady Pimlico does the same.
I prefer to be able to answer that I know nothing about it--
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tanach: Deuteronomy 23: 22 (23:23) But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee.
Deuteronomy 23: 23 (23:24) That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt observe and do; according as thou hast vowed freely unto the LORD thy God, even that which thou hast promised with thy mouth.
Deuteronomy 23: 24 (23:25) When thou comest into thy neighbour's vineyard, then thou mayest eat grapes until thou have enough at thine own pleasure; but thou shalt not put any in thy vessel.
Deuteronomy 23: 25 (23:26) When thou comest into thy neighbour's standing corn, then thou mayest pluck ears with thy hand; but thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbour's standing corn.
Deuteronomy 24: 1 When a man taketh a wife, and marrieth her, then it cometh to pass, if she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some unseemly thing in her, that he writeth her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house,
Deuteronomy 24: 2 and she departeth out of his house, and goeth and becometh another man's wife,
Deuteronomy 24: 3 and the latter husband hateth her, and writeth her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, who took her to be his wife;
Deuteronomy 24: 4 her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the LORD; and thou shalt not cause the land 
The Tanach |
