| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Melmoth Reconciled by Honore de Balzac: forgetfulness, for which he had bartered away all his hopes of a
paradise to come.
And in this way the secret of the vast power discovered and acquired
by the Irishman, the offspring of Maturin's brain, was lost to
mankind; and the various Orientalists, Mystics, and Archaeologists who
take an interest in these matters were unable to hand down to
posterity the proper method of invoking the Devil, for the following
sufficient reasons:
On the thirteenth day after these frenzied nuptials the wretched clerk
lay on a pallet bed in a garret in his master's house in the Rue
Saint-Honore. Shame, the stupid goddess who dares not behold herself,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: water of the lake, or borne away to sacrifice in the canoes, many
were drowned in the canals, and yet more were trampled to death in
the mud. Hundreds of the Aztecs perished also, for the most part
beneath the weapons of their own friends, who struck and shot not
knowing on whom the blow should fall or in whose breast the arrow
would find its home.
For my part I fought on with a little band of men who had gathered
about me, till at last the dawn broke and showed an awful sight.
The most of those who were left alive of the Spaniards and their
allies had crossed the second canal upon a bridge made of the dead
bodies of their fellows mixed up with a wreck of baggage, cannon,
Montezuma's Daughter |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: wilderness turned back upon the pursuers.
JOS 8:21 And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken
the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned
again, and slew the men of Ai.
JOS 8:22 And the other issued out of the city against them; so they
were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side:
and they smote them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.
JOS 8:23 And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua.
JOS 8:24 And it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of slaying
all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness wherein they
chased them, and when they were all fallen on the edge of the sword,
King James Bible |
