| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen: "Oh, hear me not when I pray against Thy will, which is the best! hear me not!
hear me not!"
And she bowed her head down in her lap, and Death took her child and went with
it into the unknown land.
THE FALSE COLLAR
There was once a fine gentleman, all of whose moveables were a boot-jack and a
hair-comb: but he had the finest false collars in the world; and it is about
one of these collars that we are now to hear a story.
It was so old, that it began to think of marriage; and it happened that it
came to be washed in company with a garter.
"Nay!" said the collar. "I never did see anything so slender and so fine, so
Fairy Tales |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: thousand footmen; and thou hast said, I will give them flesh, that they
may eat a whole month.
NUM 11:22 Shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them, to suffice
them? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to
suffice them?
NUM 11:23 And the LORD said unto Moses, Is the LORD'S hand waxed short?
thou shalt see now whether my word shall come to pass unto thee or not.
NUM 11:24 And Moses went out, and told the people the words of the
LORD, and gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people, and set
them round about the tabernacle.
NUM 11:25 And the LORD came down in a cloud, and spake unto him, and
King James Bible |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: mistake, she had had no wandering glances nor roundabout arts to
spare. Yet she had taken him in; she knew everything; she had made
up her mind.
He had come back from Paris; everything was re-arranged; the pair
were again shoulder to shoulder in their high encounter with life,
their large and complicated game. The fine soundless pulse of this
game was in the air for our young woman while they remained in the
shop. While they remained? They remained all day; their presence
continued and abode with her, was in everything she did till
nightfall, in the thousands of other words she counted, she
transmitted, in all the stamps she detached and the letters she
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