| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: wives; but such was the custom; and why should it surprise me
more than marriage itself? From time to time one of our rich
acquaintances would disappear, his family be broken up, his
wives and houses shared among the elders of the Church, and
his memory only recalled with bated breath and dreadful
headshakings. When I had been very still, and my presence
perhaps was forgotten, some such topic would arise among my
elders by the evening fire; I would see them draw the closer
together and look behind them with scared eyes; and I might
gather from their whisperings how some one, rich, honoured,
healthy, and in the prime of his days, some one, perhaps, who
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tanach: Isaiah 8: 7 Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the River, mighty and many, even the king of Assyria and all his glory; and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks;
Isaiah 8: 8 And he shall sweep through Judah overflowing as he passeth through he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.
Isaiah 8: 9 Make an uproar, O ye peoples, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces.
Isaiah 8: 10 Take counsel together, and it shall be brought to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand; for God is with us.
Isaiah 8: 11 For the LORD spoke thus to me with a strong hand, admonishing me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying:
Isaiah 8: 12 'Say ye not: A conspiracy, concerning all whereof this people do say: A conspiracy; neither fear ye their fear, nor account it dreadful.
Isaiah 8: 13 The LORD of hosts, Him shall ye sanctify; and let Him be your fear, and let Him be your dread.
Isaiah 8: 14 And He shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Isaiah 8: 15 And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.'
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Case of the Golden Bullet by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: Department, and the comedy of his acting under "official orders"
when the Department is in reality following out his directions.
THE CASE OF HE GOLDEN BULLET
by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner
"Please, sir, there is a man outside who asks to see you."
"What does he want?" asked Commissioner Horn, looking up.
"He says he has something to report, sir."
"Send him in, then."
The attendant disappeared, and the commissioner looked up at the
clock. It was just striking eleven, but the fellow official who
was to relieve him at that hour had not yet appeared. And if this
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