| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Light of Western Stars by Zane Grey: all its fury.
The slope that Stewart entered upon was a magnificent monument to
the ruined crags above. It was a southerly slope, and therefore
semi-arid, covered with cercocarpus and yucca and some shrub that
Madeline believed was manzanita. Every foot of the trail seemed
to slide under Majesty. What hard ground there was could not be
traveled upon, owing to the spiny covering or masses of shattered
rocks. Gullies lined the slope.
Then the sky grew blacker; the slow-gathering clouds appeared to
be suddenly agitated; they piled and rolled and mushroomed and
obscured the crags. The air moved heavily and seemed to be laden
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tanach: 2_Samuel 21: 21 And when he taunted Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea David's brother slew him.
2_Samuel 21: 22 These four were born to the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.
2_Samuel 22: 1 And David spoke unto the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul;
2_Samuel 22: 2 and he said: The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;
2_Samuel 22: 3 The God who is my rock, in Him I take refuge; my shield, and my horn of salvation, my high tower, and my refuge; my saviour, Thou savest me from violence.
2_Samuel 22: 4 Praised, I cry, is the LORD, and I am saved from mine enemies.
2_Samuel 22: 5 For the waves of Death compassed me. The floods of Belial assailed me.
2_Samuel 22: 6 The cords of Sheol surrounded me; the snares of Death confronted me.
2_Samuel 22: 7 In my distress I called upon the LORD, yea, I called unto my God; and out of His temple He heard my voice, and my cry did enter into His ears.
2_Samuel 22: 8 Then the earth did shake and quake, the foundations of heaven did tremble; they were shaken, because He was wroth.
2_Samuel 22: 9 Smoke arose up in His nostrils, and fire out of His mouth did devour; coals flamed forth from Him.
The Tanach |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In a German Pension by Katherine Mansfield: be taken away from him. I think he says his prayers to the dear Lord for
having spared him being taken home in seven basketsful to-night. It's a
fool's game to risk your all that way and leave the nation desolate."
"Dry up," said Max. "You ought to be wheeled about on the snow in a
perambulator."
"Oh, no offence, I hope. Don't get nasty. How's your wife, Victor?"
"She's not at all well. She hurt her head coming down the slide with Max
on Sunday. I told her to stay at home all day."
"I'm sorry. Are you other fellows going back to the town or stopping on
here?"
Fuchs and Victor said they were stopping--Max did not answer, but sat
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