| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad: He wouldn't do his duty and wouldn't let anybody else do theirs.
But what's the good of talking! You know well enough the sort
of ill-conditioned snarling cur--"
He appealed to me as if our experiences had been as identical as our clothes.
And I knew well enough the pestiferous danger of such a character where there
are no means of legal repression. And I knew well enough also that my double
there was no homicidal ruffian. I did not think of asking him for details,
and he told me the story roughly in brusque, disconnected sentences.
I needed no more. I saw it all going on as though I were myself inside
that other sleeping suit.
"It happened while we were setting a reefed foresail, at dusk.
The Secret Sharer |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: of the dead, standing stones; beside these, the faint,
durable footprints and handmarks of the Roman; and an
antiquity older perhaps than any, and still living and active
- a complete Celtic nomenclature and a scarce-mingled Celtic
population. These rugged and grey hills were once included
in the boundaries of the Caledonian Forest. Merlin sat here
below his apple-tree and lamented Gwendolen; here spoke with
Kentigern; here fell into his enchanted trance. And the
legend of his slumber seems to body forth the story of that
Celtic race, deprived for so many centuries of their
authentic speech, surviving with their ancestral inheritance
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: ISA 60:13 The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir tree, the
pine tree, and the box together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary;
and I will make the place of my feet glorious.
ISA 60:14 The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending
unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at
the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee; The city of the LORD,
The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
ISA 60:15 Whereas thou has been forsaken and hated, so that no man went
through thee, I will make thee an eternal excellency, a joy of many
generations.
ISA 60:16 Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt suck
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