| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen: She said very well, Tuesday was just as convenient to her;
so there is an end of all our difficulties. A pretty
good thought of mine--hey?"
Isabella's countenance was once more all smiles
and good humour, and James too looked happy again.
"A most heavenly thought indeed! Now, my sweet Catherine,
all our distresses are over; you are honourably acquitted,
and we shall have a most delightful party."
"This will not do," said Catherine; "I cannot submit
to this. I must run after Miss Tilney directly and set
her right."
Northanger Abbey |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tanach: Numbers 28: 3 And thou shalt say unto them: This is the offering made by fire which ye shall bring unto the LORD: he-lambs of the first year without blemish, two day by day, for a continual burnt-offering.
Numbers 28: 4 The one lamb shalt thou offer in the morning, and the other lamb shalt thou offer at dusk;
Numbers 28: 5 and the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meal-offering, mingled with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil.
Numbers 28: 6 It is a continual burnt-offering, which was offered in mount Sinai, for a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
Numbers 28: 7 And the drink-offering thereof shall be the fourth part of a hin for the one lamb; in the holy place shalt thou pour out a drink-offering of strong drink unto the LORD.
Numbers 28: 8 And the other lamb shalt thou present at dusk; as the meal-offering of the morning, and as the drink-offering thereof, thou shalt present it, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
Numbers 28: 9 And on the sabbath day two he-lambs of the first year without blemish, and two tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour for a meal-offering, mingled with oil, and the drink-offering thereof.
Numbers 28: 10 This is the burnt-offering of every sabbath, beside the continual burnt-offering, and the drink-offering thereof.
The Tanach |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells: thought to that moment of the immense mess they would be in; how the
whole edifice would clatter about their ears. I had a sudden desire
to stop the train and go back for a day, for two days, to set that
negligence right. My brain for a moment brightened, became animated
and prolific of ideas. I thought of a brilliant line we might have
taken on that confounded Reformatory Bill. . . .
That sort of thing was over. . . .
What indeed wasn't over? I passed to a vaguer, more multitudinous
perception of disaster, the friends I had lost already since Altiora
began her campaign, the ampler remnant whom now I must lose. I
thought of people I had been merry with, people I had worked with
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