| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lady Baltimore by Owen Wister: journey home when the invitation came from John and Eliza.
I have already said that of this wedding no word was in the papers. Kings
Port by the war lost all material things, but not the others, among which
precious privacy remains to her; and, O Kings Port, may you never lose
your grasp of that treasure! May you never know the land where the
reporter blooms, where if any joy or grief befall you, the public press
rings your doorbell and demands the particulars, and if you deny it the
particulars, it makes them up and says something scurrilous about you
into the bargain. Therefore nothing was printed, morning or evening,
about John and Eliza. Nor was the wedding service held in church to the
accompaniment of nodding bonnets and gaping stragglers. No eye not tender
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring by George Bernard Shaw: accomplish this: however cunningly Loki spreads it, the glint of
Freia's hair is still visible to Giant Fafnir, and the magic
helmet must go on the heap to shut it out. Even then Fafnir's
brother, Fasolt, can catch a beam from her eye through a chink,
and is rendered incapable thereby of forswearing her. There is
nothing to stop that chink but the ring; and Wotan is as greedily
bent on keeping that as Alberic himself was; nor can the other
gods persuade him that Freia is worth it, since for the highest
god, love is not the highest good, but only the universal delight
that bribes all living things to travail with renewed life. Life
itself, with its accomplished marvels and its infinite
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tanach: Genesis 2: 16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying: 'Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat;
Genesis 2: 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.'
Genesis 2: 18 And the LORD God said: 'It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him.'
Genesis 2: 19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto the man to see what he would call them; and whatsoever the man would call every living creature, that was to be the name thereof.
Genesis 2: 20 And the man gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found a help meet for him.
Genesis 2: 21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the place with flesh instead thereof.
Genesis 2: 22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from the man, made He a woman, and brought her unto the man.
Genesis 2: 23 And the man said: 'This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.'
Genesis 2: 24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh.
Genesis 2: 25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
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