| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Voice of the City by O. Henry: suppose we step aside to a quieter place. There is a
divan -- a cafe over here that will do. Schrumm
will give us a private corner."
Schrumm established them under a growing palm,
with two seidls between them. Vuyning made a
pleasant reference to meteorological conditions, thus
forming a binge upon which might be swung the
door leading from the thought repository of the
other.
"In the first place," said his companion, with the
air of one who presents his credentials, "I want you
The Voice of the City |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tanach: Zechariah 12: 6 In that day will I make the chiefs of Judah like a pan of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire among sheaves; and they shall devour all the peoples round about, on the right hand and on the left; and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.
Zechariah 12: 7 The LORD also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem be not magnified above Judah.
Zechariah 12: 8 In that day shall the LORD defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that stumbleth among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as a godlike being, as the angel of the LORD before them.
Zechariah 12: 9 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
Zechariah 12: 10 And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they shall look unto Me because they have thrust him through; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his first-born.
Zechariah 12: 11 In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.
Zechariah 12: 12 And the land shall mourn, every family apart: the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;
Zechariah 12: 13 The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of the Shimeites apart, and their wives apart;
The Tanach |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: eye alighted on the burly form of a policeman, standing hard
by the effigy in an attitude of watch. My bold companion
paused; he looked about him closely; here and there, at
different points of the enclosure, other men stood or
loitered, affecting an abstraction, feigning to gaze upon the
shrubs, feigning to talk, feigning to be weary and to rest
upon the benches. M'Guire was no child in these affairs; he
instantly divined one of the plots of the Machiavellian
Gladstone.
A chief difficulty with which we have to deal, is a certain
nervousness in the subaltern branches of the corps; as the
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