| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: Solomon to Hiram year by year.
KI1 5:12 And the LORD gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him: and
there was peace between Hiram and Solomon; and they two made a league
together.
KI1 5:13 And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy
was thirty thousand men.
KI1 5:14 And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses:
a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home: and Adoniram was
over the levy.
KI1 5:15 And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens,
and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains;
King James Bible |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf: "And you don't! I understand!" Clarissa laughed.
"I like walking in the Park alone; but not--with the dogs,"
she finished.
"No; and some people _are_ dogs; aren't they?" said Clarissa,
as if she had guessed a secret. "But not every one--oh no,
not every one."
"Not every one," said Rachel, and stopped.
"I can quite imagine you walking alone," said Clarissa: "and thinking--
in a little world of your own. But how you will enjoy it--
some day!"
"I shall enjoy walking with a man--is that what you mean?" said Rachel,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen: be unkind, however, and, as a mark of his affection
for the three girls, he left them a thousand pounds a-piece.
Mr. Dashwood's disappointment was, at first, severe;
but his temper was cheerful and sanguine; and he might
reasonably hope to live many years, and by living economically,
lay by a considerable sum from the produce of an estate
already large, and capable of almost immediate improvement.
But the fortune, which had been so tardy in coming, was his
only one twelvemonth. He survived his uncle no longer;
and ten thousand pounds, including the late legacies,
was all that remained for his widow and daughters.
Sense and Sensibility |
