| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Island Nights' Entertainments by Robert Louis Stevenson: crazy that trusted it. Altogether, you see, I had the materials of
a pretty good blow-up! Expense was nothing to me; I wanted that
thing done right.
As long as I was in the open, and had the lamp in my house to steer
by, I did well. But when I got to the path, it fell so dark I
could make no headway, walking into trees and swearing there, like
a man looking for the matches in his bed-room. I knew it was risky
to light up, for my lantern would be visible all the way to the
point of the cape, and as no one went there after dark, it would be
talked about, and come to Case's ears. But what was I to do? I
had either to give the business over and lose caste with Maea, or
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A treatise on Good Works by Dr. Martin Luther: well-pleasing to God.
M. REU.
WARTBURG SEMINARY, DUBUQUE, IOWA.
TREATISE ON GOOD WORKS
1520
DEDICATION
JESUS
To the Illustrious, High-born Prince and Lord, John Duke of
Saxony, Landgrave of Thuringia, Margrave of Meissen, my gracious
Lord and Patron.
Illustrious, High-born Prince, gracious Lord! My humble duty and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: boats. You're a West Pointer and--"
"You talk like a Baptist preacher making a recruiting speech.
Suppose I don't want to redeem myself? Why should I fight to
uphold the system that cast me out? I shall take pleasure in
seeing it smashed."
"I never heard of any system," she said crossly.
"No? And yet you are a part of it, like I was, and I'll wager you
don't like it any more than I did. Well, why am I the black sheep
of the Butler family? For this reason and no other--I didn't
conform to Charleston and I couldn't. And Charleston is the
South, only intensified. I wonder if you realize yet what a bore
Gone With the Wind |
