| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Camille by Alexandre Dumas: that sort of apathy into which I had sunk since my departure.
We were beating about for game and I was given my post. I put
down my unloaded gun at my side, and meditated. I watched the
clouds pass. I let my thought wander over the solitary plains,
and from time to time I heard some one call to me and point to a
hare not ten paces off. None of these details escaped my father,
and he was not deceived by my exterior calm. He was well aware
that, broken as I now was, I should some day experience a
terrible reaction, which might be dangerous, and, without seeming
to make any effort to console me, he did his utmost to distract
my thoughts.
Camille |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: should have refused to listen to clients who came before him in a
manner so irregular, and he had listened. And O, if he had only
listened; but he had gone upon their errand--he, a barrister,
uninstructed even by the shadow of a solicitor--upon an errand
fit only for a private detective; and alas!--and for the
hundredth time the blood surged to his brow--he had taken their
money! 'No,' said he, 'the thing is as plain as St Paul's. I
shall be dishonoured! I have smashed my career for a five-pound
note.'
Between the possibility of being hanged in all innocence, and the
certainty of a public and merited disgrace, no gentleman of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: were thick planks upon the face of the porch without.
EZE 41:26 And there were narrow windows and palm trees on the one side
and on the other side, on the sides of the porch, and upon the side
chambers of the house, and thick planks.
EZE 42:1 Then he brought me forth into the utter court, the way toward
the north: and he brought me into the chamber that was over against the
separate place, and which was before the building toward the north.
EZE 42:2 Before the length of an hundred cubits was the north door, and
the breadth was fifty cubits.
EZE 42:3 Over against the twenty cubits which were for the inner court,
and over against the pavement which was for the utter court, was gallery
King James Bible |
