| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: NUM 1:13 Of Asher; Pagiel the son of Ocran.
NUM 1:14 Of Gad; Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
NUM 1:15 Of Naphtali; Ahira the son of Enan.
NUM 1:16 These were the renowned of the congregation, princes of the
tribes of their fathers, heads of thousands in Israel.
NUM 1:17 And Moses and Aaron took these men which are expressed by
their names:
NUM 1:18 And they assembled all the congregation together on the first
day of the second month, and they declared their pedigrees after their
families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the
names, from twenty years old and upward, by their polls.
King James Bible |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Fantastic Fables by Ambrose Bierce: The Distinguished Naturalist looked interested, but said nothing
for an hour; then he said to his native Guide:
"You have pretty wide meadows here, I suppose?"
"No, not very wide," the Guide answered; "about the same as in
England and America."
After another long silence the Distinguished Naturalist said:
"The hay which we shall purchase for our horses this evening - I
shall expect to find the stalks about fifty feet long. Am I
right?"
"Why, no," said the Guide; "a foot or two is about the usual length
of our hay. What can you be thinking of?"
Fantastic Fables |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Vicar of Tours by Honore de Balzac: reflected that if it had not been for Troubert's visit he would have
had no fire to dress by. "He's a kind man," thought he.
The two priests went downstairs together, each armed with a huge folio
which they laid on one of the side tables in the dining-room.
"What's all that?" asked Mademoiselle Gamard, in a sharp voice,
addressing Birotteau. "I hope you are not going to litter up my
dining-room with your old books!"
"They are books I wanted," replied the Abbe Troubert. "Monsieur
Birotteau has been kind enough to lend them to me."
"I might have guessed it," she said, with a contemptuous smile.
"Monsieur Birotteau doesn't often read books of that size."
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