| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The House of Dust by Conrad Aiken: And returned to see it again. And it was so.'
Weave, weave, weave, you streaks of rain!
I am dissolved and woven again . . .
Thousands of faces rise and vanish before me.
Thousands of voices weave in the rain.
'I am the one who rode beside you, blinking
At a dazzle of golden lights.
Tempests of music swept me: I was thinking
Of the gorgeous promise of certain nights:
Of the woman who suddenly smiled at me this day,
Smiled in a certain delicious sidelong way,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton: patent lock. The girl fitted another key into the lock, and
Doctor Lombard led the way into a small room. The dark panelling
of this apartment was irradiated by streams of yellow light
slanting through the disbanded thunder clouds, and in the central
brightness hung a picture concealed by a curtain of faded velvet.
"A little too bright, Sybilla," said Doctor Lombard. His face
had grown solemn, and his mouth twitched nervously as his
daughter drew a linen drapery across the upper part of the
window.
"That will do--that will do." He turned impressively to Wyant.
"Do you see the pomegranate bud in this rug? Place yourself
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: PRO 8:31 Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights
were with the sons of men.
PRO 8:32 Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are
they that keep my ways.
PRO 8:33 Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.
PRO 8:34 Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my
gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
PRO 8:35 For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of
the LORD.
PRO 8:36 But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they
that hate me love death.
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