| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: vindictive face, from the cold eyes of which hate seemed to
smolder, she took an instinctive step toward her lover. The cold
wave that drenched her heart accompanied an assurance that the
man in the doorway meant trouble.
His sleek smile arrested her. He was standing with his feet
apart, his hands clasped lightly behind his back, as natty and as
well groomed as was his wont.
"Ah, make the most of what ye yet may spend,
Before ye, too, into the Dust descend;
Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie,
Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and--sans
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Catherine de Medici by Honore de Balzac: enter without announcement.
"You are lost!" she said to Christophe, perceiving that she could no
longer put away the papers, nor close with sufficient rapidity the
open panel, the secret of which was now betrayed.
Christophe answered her with a glance that was sublime.
"/Povero mio/!" said Catherine, before she looked at her daughter-in-
law. "Treason, madame! I hold the traitors at last," she cried. "Send
for the duke and the cardinal; and see that that man," pointing to
Christophe, "does not escape."
In an instant the able woman had seen the necessity of sacrificing the
poor youth. She could not hide him; it was impossible to save him.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings
shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.
ISA 8:9 Associate yourselves, O ye people, 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.
ISA 8:10 Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the
word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.
ISA 8:11 For the LORD spake thus to me with a strong hand, and
instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying,
ISA 8:12 Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people
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