| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Chita: A Memory of Last Island by Lafcadio Hearn: dreams, bending and smiling over her, caressing her, speaking to
her,--sometimes gently chiding, but always chiding with a kiss.
And then the child would laugh in her sleep, and prattle in
Creole,--talking to the luminous shadow, telling the dead mother
all the little deeds and thoughts of the day.... Why would God
only let her come at night?
... Her idea of God had been first defined by the sight of a
quaint French picture of the Creation,--an engraving which
represented a shoreless sea under a black sky, and out of the
blackness a solemn and bearded gray head emerging, and a cloudy
hand through which stars glimmered. God was like old Doctor de
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Iliad by Homer: Why, however, should I thus hesitate? When a man fights in
despite of heaven with one whom a god befriends, he will soon rue
it. Let no Danaan think ill of me if I give place to Hector, for
the hand of heaven is with him. Yet, if I could find Ajax, the
two of us would fight Hector and heaven too, if we might only
save the body of Patroclus for Achilles son of Peleus. This, of
many evils would be the least."
While he was thus in two minds, the Trojans came up to him with
Hector at their head; he therefore drew back and left the body,
turning about like some bearded lion who is being chased by dogs
and men from a stockyard with spears and hue and cry, whereon he
The Iliad |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: PSA 78:57 But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers:
they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
PSA 78:58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and
moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
PSA 78:59 When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred
Israel:
PSA 78:60 So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which
he placed among men;
PSA 78:61 And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into
the enemy's hand.
PSA 78:62 He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth
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