| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Concerning Christian Liberty by Martin Luther: ravening wolves in sheep's clothing.
Now this leviathan, this perverted notion about works, is
invincible when sincere faith is wanting. For those sanctified
doers of works cannot but hold it till faith, which destroys it,
comes and reigns in the heart. Nature cannot expel it by her own
power; nay, cannot even see it for what it is, but considers it
as a most holy will. And when custom steps in besides, and
strengthens this pravity of nature, as has happened by means of
impious teachers, then the evil is incurable, and leads astray
multitudes to irreparable ruin. Therefore, though it is good to
preach and write about penitence, confession, and satisfaction,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: and in order to secure it had had to assume a military exterior.
What he wanted was not a thing which many persons want, but something
connected with the peculiar branch of medical science which he
had chosen quite clandestinely to follow, and in which he had
achieved amazing and occasionally hideous results. It was, in
fact, nothing more or less than an abundant supply of freshly
killed men in every stage of dismemberment.
Herbert West needed
fresh bodies because his life-work was the reanimation of the
dead. This work was not known to the fashionable clientele who
had so swiftly built up his fame after his arrival in Boston;
Herbert West: Reanimator |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Facino Cane by Honore de Balzac: One day my charwoman, a working man's wife, came to beg me to honor
her sister's wedding with my presence. If you are to realize what this
wedding was like you must know that I paid my charwoman, poor
creature, four francs a month; for which sum she came every morning to
make my bed, clean my shoes, brush my clothes, sweep the room, and
make ready my breakfast, before going to her day's work of turning the
handle of a machine, at which hard drudgery she earned five-pence. Her
husband, a cabinetmaker, made four francs a day at his trade; but as
they had three children, it was all that they could do to gain an
honest living. Yet I have never met with more sterling honesty than in
this man and wife. For five years after I left the quarter, Mere
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