| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from In the South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson: He was pressed; he persisted. It was explained we only wanted one:
no matter, two were necessary for the healing of the sick. He was
rallied, he was reasoned with: in vain. He sat there, serious and
still, and refused. All this was only a preliminary skirmish;
hitherto no sum of money had been mentioned; but now the captain
brought his great guns to bear. He named a pound, then two, then
three. Out of the maniap's one person after another came to join
the group, some with mere excitement, others with consternation in
their faces. The pretty girl crept to my side; it was then that -
surely with the most artless flattery - she informed me of my
likeness to her father. Tamaiti the infidel sat with hanging head
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: to send peace, but a sword.
MAT 10:35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father,
and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her
mother in law.
MAT 10:36 And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
MAT 10:37 He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of
me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
MAT 10:38 And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is
not worthy of me.
MAT 10:39 He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth
his life for my sake shall find it.
King James Bible |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Eugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac: enough to let her see into the corridor.
Suddenly her eye encountered that of her father; and his glance, vague
and unnoticing as it was, terrified her. The goodman and Nanon were
yoked together by a stout stick, each end of which rested on their
shoulders; a stout rope was passed over it, on which was slung a small
barrel or keg like those Pere Grandet still made in his bakehouse as
an amusement for his leisure hours.
"Holy Virgin, how heavy it is!" said the voice of Nanon.
"What a pity that it is only copper sous!" answered Grandet. "Take
care you don't knock over the candlestick."
The scene was lighted by a single candle placed between two rails of
Eugenie Grandet |
