| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wrecker by Stevenson & Osbourne: I imagined she had always intended me a pleasant welcome;
but the certain fervour of sincerity, which I could not help
remarking, flowed from an unexpected source. Captain Nares,
with a kindness for which I can never be sufficiently grateful,
had stolen a moment from his occupations, driven to call on
Mamie, and drawn her a generous picture of my prowess at the
wreck. She was careful not to breathe a word of this interview,
till she had led me on to tell my adventures for myself.
"Ah! Captain Nares was better," she cried, when I had done.
"From your account, I have only learned one new thing, that
you are modest as well as brave."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence: on to their physical corpses.'
He looked at her in wonder.
'The life of the body,' he said, 'is just the life of the animals.'
'And that's better than the life of professional corpses. But it's not
true! the human body is only just coming to real life. With the Greeks
it gave a lovely flicker, then Plato and Aristotle killed it, and Jesus
finished it off. But now the body is coming really to life, it is
really rising from the tomb. And It will be a lovely, lovely life in
the lovely universe, the life of the human body.'
'My dear, you speak as if you were ushering it all in! True, you am
going away on a holiday: but don't please be quite so indecently elated
Lady Chatterley's Lover |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tanach: Numbers 23: 6 And he returned unto him, and, lo, he stood by his burnt-offering, he, and all the princes of Moab.
Numbers 23: 7 And he took up his parable, and said: From Aram Balak bringeth me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East: 'Come, curse me Jacob, and come, execrate Israel.'
Numbers 23: 8 How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? And how shall I execrate, whom the LORD hath not execrated?
Numbers 23: 9 For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: lo, it is a people that shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.
Numbers 23: 10 Who hath counted the dust of Jacob, or numbered the stock of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let mine end be like his!
Numbers 23: 11 And Balak said unto Balaam: 'What hast thou done unto me? I took thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast blessed them altogether.'
Numbers 23: 12 And he answered and said: 'Must I not take heed to speak that which the LORD putteth in my mouth?'
Numbers 23: 13 And Balak said unto him: 'Come, I pray thee, with me unto another place, from whence thou mayest see them; thou shalt see but the utmost part of them, and shalt not see them all; and curse me them from thence.'
Numbers 23: 14 And he took him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered up a bullock and a ram on every altar.
Numbers 23: 15 And he said unto Balak: 'Stand here by thy burnt-offering, while I go toward a meeting yonder.'
The Tanach |
