| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: over and over, as if in a delirium until the hideous monotony gave
Scarlett a fierce desire to smother her voice with a pillow.
Perhaps the doctor would come after all. If he would only come
quickly! Hope raising its head, she turned to Prissy, and ordered
her to run quickly to the Meades' house and see if he were there or
Mrs. Meade.
"And if he's not there, ask Mrs. Meade or Cookie what to do. Beg
them to come!"
Prissy was off with a clatter and Scarlett watched her hurrying
down the street, going faster than she had ever dreamed the
worthless child could move. After a prolonged time she was back,
Gone With the Wind |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tanach: Numbers 10: 3 And when they shall blow with them, all the congregation shall gather themselves unto thee at the door of the tent of meeting.
Numbers 10: 4 And if they blow but with one, then the princes, the heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves unto thee.
Numbers 10: 5 And when ye blow an alarm, the camps that lie on the east side shall take their journey.
Numbers 10: 6 And when ye blow an alarm the second time, the camps that lie on the south side shall set forward; they shall blow an alarm for their journeys.
Numbers 10: 7 But when the assembly is to be gathered together, ye shall blow, but ye shall not sound an alarm.
Numbers 10: 8 And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow with the trumpets; and they shall be to you for a statute for ever throughout your generations.
Numbers 10: 9 And when ye go to war in your land against the adversary that oppresseth you, then ye shall sound an alarm with the trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before the LORD your God, and ye shall be saved from your enemies.
Numbers 10: 10 Also in the day of your gladness, and in your appointed seasons, and in your new moons, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt-offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace-offerings; and they shall be to you for a memorial before your God: I am the LORD your God.'
Numbers 10: 11 And it came to pass in the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, that the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle of the testimony.
The Tanach |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy: I was a University pupil, a graduate of the law school. I
married in my thirtieth year. But before talking to you of my
marriage, I must tell you how I lived formerly, and what ideas I
had of conjugal life. I led the life of so many other so-called
respectable people,--that is, in debauchery. And like the
majority, while leading the life of a debauche, I was convinced
that I was a man of irreproachable morality.
"The idea that I had of my morality arose from the fact that in
my family there was no knowledge of those special debaucheries,
so common in the surroundings of land-owners, and also from the
fact that my father and my mother did not deceive each other. In
The Kreutzer Sonata |
