| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from An Episode Under the Terror by Honore de Balzac: went out he walked to a perfumer's shop at the sign of The Queen of
Roses, kept by the Citizen Ragon and his wife, court perfumers. The
Ragons had been faithful adherents of the Royalist cause; it was
through their means that the Vendean leaders kept up a correspondence
with the Princes and the Royalist Committee in Paris. The abbe, in the
ordinary dress of the time, was standing on the threshold of the shop
--which stood between Saint Roch and the Rue des Frondeurs--when he
saw that the Rue Saint Honore was filled with a crowd and he could not
go out.
"What is the matter?" he asked Madame Ragon.
"Nothing," she said; "it is only the tumbril cart and the executioner
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: with promise;
EPH 6:3 That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the
earth.
EPH 6:4 And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring
them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
EPH 6:5 Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according
to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as
unto Christ;
EPH 6:6 Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of
Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;
EPH 6:7 With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men:
King James Bible |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In a German Pension by Katherine Mansfield: "I really do not know," I answered.
"You really do not know? How long have you been married?"
"Three years."
"But you cannot be in earnest! You would not have kept house as his wife
for a week without knowing that fact."
"I really never asked him; he is not at all particular about his food."
A pause. They all looked at me, shaking their heads, their mouths full of
cherry stones.
"No wonder there is a repetition in England of that dreadful state of
things in Paris," said the Widow, folding her dinner napkin. "How can a
woman expect to keep her husband if she does not know his favourite food
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