| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: rocking with the pealing bells: the people are all in the streets
shouting and singing round bonfires. They are burning the pope in
effigy, drinking to the queen's health, and "So perish all her
enemies!" The hills are red with bonfires in every village; and
far away, the bells of Bideford are answering the bells of Northam,
as they answered them seven years ago, when Amyas returned from
sailing round the world. For this day has come the news that Mary
Queen of Scots is beheaded in Fotheringay; and all England, like a
dreamer who shakes off some hideous nightmare, has leapt up in one
tremendous shout of jubilation, as the terror and the danger of
seventeen anxious years is lifted from its heart for ever.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: spots about four inches long, the membrane itself being of a dull
white." And so on for 13 paragraphs more. Then followed the names
and signatures of the assistants, and the doctor's conclusion
showing that the changes observed in the stomach, and to a lesser
degree in the bowels and kidneys, at the postmortem examination,
and described in the official report, gave great probability to
the conclusion that Smelkoff's death was caused by poison which
had entered his stomach mixed with alcohol. To decide from the
state of the stomach what poison had been introduced was
difficult; but it was necessary to suppose that the poison
entered the stomach mixed with alcohol, since a great quantity of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tanach: Ezekiel 2: 8 And thou, son of man, hear what I say unto thee: be not thou rebellious like that rebellious house; open thy mouth, and eat that which I give thee.'
Ezekiel 2: 9 And when I looked, behold, a hand was put forth unto me; and, lo, a roll of a book was therein;
Ezekiel 2: 10 and He spread it before me, and it was written within and without; and there was written therein lamentations, and moaning, and woe.
Ezekiel 3: 1 And He said unto me: 'Son of man, eat that which thou findest; eat this roll, and go, speak unto the house of Israel.'
Ezekiel 3: 2 So I opened my mouth, and He caused me to eat that roll.
Ezekiel 3: 3 And He said unto me: 'Son of man, cause thy belly to eat, and fill thy bowels with this roll that I give thee.' Then did I eat it; and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness.
Ezekiel 3: 4 And He said unto me: 'Son of man, go, get thee unto the house of Israel, and speak with My words unto them.
Ezekiel 3: 5 For thou art not sent to a people of an unintelligible speech and of a slow tongue, but to the house of Israel;
Ezekiel 3: 6 not to many peoples of an unintelligible speech and of a slow tongue, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, if I sent thee to them, they would hearken unto thee.
Ezekiel 3: 7 But the house of Israel will not consent to hearken unto thee; for they consent not to hearken unto Me; for all the house of Israel are of a hard forehead and of a stiff heart.
Ezekiel 3: 8 Behold, I have made thy face hard against their faces, and thy forehead hard against their foreheads.
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