| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Prufrock/Other Observations by T. S. Eliot: This music is successful with a "dying fall"
Now that we talk of dying--
And should I have the right to smile?
Preludes
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The winter evening settles down
With smell of steaks in passageways.
Six o’clock.
The burnt-out ends of smoky days.
And now a gusty shower wraps
The grimy scraps
Prufrock/Other Observations |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Wrecker by Stevenson & Osbourne: and that that evening, if I did not join with him, I must declare
myself an open enemy. At least he fled. Dinner was done; this
was the time when I had bound myself to break my silence; no
more delays were to be allowed, no more excuses received. I
went upstairs after some tobacco; which I felt to be a mere
necessity in the circumstances; and when I returned, the man
was gone. The waiter told me he had left the house.
The rain still plumped, like a vast shower-bath, over the
deserted town. The night was dark and windless: the street lit
glimmeringly from end to end, lamps, house windows, and the
reflections in the rain-pools all contributing. From a public-
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tanach: Psalms 13: 4 (13:5) Lest mine enemy say: 'I have prevailed against him'; lest mine adversaries rejoice when I am moved.
Psalms 13: 5 (13:6) But as for me, in Thy mercy do I trust; my heart shall rejoice in Thy salvation.
Psalms 13: 6 (13:6) I will sing unto the LORD, because He hath dealt bountifully with me.
Psalms 14: 1 For the Leader. A Psalm of David. The fool hath said in his heart: 'There is no God'; they have dealt corruptly, they have done abominably; there is none that doeth good.
Psalms 14: 2 The LORD looked forth from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any man of understanding, that did seek after God.
Psalms 14: 3 They are all corrupt, they are together become impure; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Psalms 14: 4 'Shall not all the workers of iniquity know it, who eat up My people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD?'
Psalms 14: 5 There are they in great fear; for God is with the righteous generation.
Psalms 14: 6 Ye would put to shame the counsel of the poor, but the LORD is his refuge.
Psalms 14: 7 Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When the LORD turneth the captivity of His people, let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad.
Psalms 15: 1 A Psalm of David. LORD, who shall sojourn in Thy tabernacle? Who shall dwell upon Thy holy mountain?
The Tanach |
