| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: able, he may redeem himself.
LEV 25:50 And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year
that he was sold to him unto the year of jubile: and the price of his
sale shall be according unto the number of years, according to the time
of an hired servant shall it be with him.
LEV 25:51 If there be yet many years behind, according unto them he
shall give again the price of his redemption out of the money that he
was bought for.
LEV 25:52 And if there remain but few years unto the year of jubile,
then he shall count with him, and according unto his years shall he give
him again the price of his redemption.
King James Bible |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Heart of the West by O. Henry: with hydrogen and oxygen. Behind the bar Schwegel laboured with an
assistant whose epidermal pores showed no signs of being obstructed.
Hot weinerwurst and sauerkraut were being served to purchasers of
beer. Curly shuffled to the end of the bar, coughed hollowly, and told
Schwegel that he was a Detroit cabinet-maker out of a job.
It followed as the night the day that he got his schooner and lunch.
"Was you acquainted maybe with Heinrich Strauss in Detroit?" asked
Schwegel.
"Did I know Heinrich Strauss?" repeated Curly, affectionately. "Why,
say, 'Bo, I wish I had a dollar for every game of pinochle me and
Heine has played on Sunday afternoons."
Heart of the West |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Seraphita by Honore de Balzac: "I had left the parsonage on my way to baptize the infant and name it,
and perform the other duties required by law, when I met the baron
returning to the house. 'Your ministrations are superfluous,' he said;
'our child is to be without name on this earth. You must not baptize
in the waters of an earthly Church one who has just been immersed in
the fires of Heaven. This child will remain a blossom, it will not
grow old; you will see it pass away. You exist, but our child has
life; you have outward senses, the child has none, its being is always
inward.' These words were uttered in so strange and supernatural a
voice that I was more affected by them than by the shining of his
face, from which light appeared to exude. His appearance realized the
Seraphita |
