| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from O Pioneers! by Willa Cather: could feel it; for people who could not, it
was non-existent. He coveted nothing that was
Frank Shabata's. The spirit he had met in
music was his own. Frank Shabata had never
found it; would never find it if he lived beside it
a thousand years; would have destroyed it if he
had found it, as Herod slew the innocents, as
Rome slew the martyrs.
SAN--CTA MARI-I-I-A,
O Pioneers! |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: royal, to shew the people and the princes her beauty: for she was fair
to look on.
EST 1:12 But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king's commandment
by his chamberlains: therefore was the king very wroth, and his anger
burned in him.
EST 1:13 Then the king said to the wise men, which knew the times, (for
so was the king's manner toward all that knew law and judgment:
EST 1:14 And the next unto him was Carshena, Shethar, Admatha,
Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and
Media, which saw the king's face, and which sat the first in the
kingdom;)
King James Bible |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Waziri gazed about in mute rage for several
minutes. Everywhere they encountered only further
evidence of the ruthlessness of the cruel enemy that
had come during the Great Bwana's absence and laid
waste his property.
"What did they with 'Lady'?" asked one of the blacks.
They had always called Lady Greystoke thus.
"The women they would have taken with them," said
Basuli. "Our women and his."
A giant black raised his spear above his head, and gave
voice to a savage cry of rage and hate. The others
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar |
