| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Man against the Sky by Edwin Arlington Robinson: When time's malicious mercy cautions them
To think a while of number and of space.
The burning hope, the worn expectancy,
The martyred humor, and the maimed allure,
Cry out for time to end his levity,
And age to soften its investiture;
But they, though others fade and are still fair,
Defy their fairness and are unsubdued;
Although they suffer, they may not forswear
The patient ardor of the unpursued.
Poor flesh, to fight the calendar so long;
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: impossibility. There was no sort of help available except that
of indoor servants, for whom she had no accommodation. The
furniture was their own; it was partly secondhand, but on the
whole it seemed cheerful to my eye, and my aunt's bias for cheap,
gay-figured muslin had found ample score. In many ways I should
think it must have been an extremely inconvenient and cramped
sort of home, but at the time I took it, as I was taking
everything, as being there and in the nature of things. I did
not see the oddness of solvent decent people living in a
habitation so clearly neither designed nor adapted for their
needs, so wasteful of labour and so devoid of beauty as this was,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tanach: Job 41: 30 (41:22) Sharpest potsherds are under him; he spreadeth a threshing-sledge upon the mire.
Job 41: 31 (41:23) He maketh the deep to boil like a pot; he maketh the sea like a seething mixture.
Job 41: 32 (41:24) He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary.
Job 41: 33 (41:25) Upon earth there is not his like, who is made to be fearless.
Job 41: 34 (41:26) He looketh at all high things; he is king over all the proud beasts.
Job 42: 1 Then Job answered the LORD, and said:
Job 42: 2 I know that Thou canst do every thing, and that no purpose can be withholden from Thee.
Job 42: 3 Who is this that hideth counsel without knowledge? Therefore have I uttered that which I understood not, things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.
Job 42: 4 Hear, I beseech Thee, and I will speak; I will demand of Thee, and declare Thou unto me.
Job 42: 5 I had heard of Thee by the hearing of the ear; but now mine eye seeth Thee;
Job 42: 6 Wherefore I abhor my words, and repent, seeing I am dust and ashes.
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