| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: each horse, and the tips dealt out so freely, recommended
the travelers in a special way. Perhaps the postmasters
thought it singular that, after the publication of the order,
a young man and his sister, evidently both Russians, could
travel freely across Siberia, which was closed to everyone
else, but their papers were all en regle and they had the
right to pass.
However, Michael Strogoff and Nadia were not the only
travelers on their way from Perm to Ekaterenburg. At the
first stages, the courier of the Czar had learnt that a carriage
preceded them, but, as there was no want of horses, he did
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tanach: Numbers 15: 39 And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that ye go not about after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go astray;
Numbers 15: 40 that ye may remember and do all My commandments, and be holy unto your God.
Numbers 15: 41 I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the LORD your God.'
Numbers 16: 1 Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men;
Numbers 16: 2 and they rose up in face of Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty men; they were princes of the congregation, the elect men of the assembly, men of renown;
Numbers 16: 3 and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said unto them: 'Ye take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them; wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the assembly of the LORD?'
Numbers 16: 4 And when Moses heard it, he fell upon his face.
Numbers 16: 5 And he spoke unto Korah and unto all his company, saying: 'In the morning the LORD will show who are His, and who is holy, and will cause him to come near unto Him; even him whom He ma 
The Tanach |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Agesilaus by Xenophon: to his friendship.
[9] See below, xi. 4; "Mem." III. i. 6; IV. ii. 15; "Cyrop." I. vi.
31; Plut. "Ages." xi. (Clough, iv. 10).
But a country pillaged and denuded of inhabitants would not long
support an army. That he felt. A more perennial source of supply was
surely to be found in waving cornfields and thickly clustering
homesteads. So with infinite pains he set himself not merely to crush
his foes by force, but also to win them to his side by gentleness. In
this spirit he often enjoined upon his soldiers to guard their
captives as fellow-men rather than take vengeance upon them as
evildoers;[10] or, on a change of quarters, if aware of little
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