| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories by Alice Dunbar: fisherman was not to be tempted by appeals to stay, but smilingly
disappeared down the sands, the red glare of his torch making a
glowing track in the water.
"Ah, Mees Annette," whispered Natalie, between mouthfuls of a
rich croaker, "you have found a beau in the water."
"And the fisherman of the Pass, too," laughed her cousin Ida.
Annette tossed her head, for Philip had growled audibly.
"Do you know, Philip," cried Annette a few days after, rudely
shaking him from his siesta on the gallery,-- "do you know that I
have found my fisherman's hut?"
"Hum," was the only response.
The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Essays of Francis Bacon by Francis Bacon: present occasion, with arguments, tales with rea-
sons, asking of questions, with telling of opinions,
and jest with earnest: for it is a dull thing to tire,
and, as we say now, to jade, any thing too far. As
for jest, there be certain things, which ought to be
privileged from it; namely, religion, matters of
state, great persons, any man's present business of
importance, and any case that deserveth pity. Yet
there be some, that think their wits have been
asleep, except they dart out somewhat that is
piquant, and to the quick. That is a vein which
Essays of Francis Bacon |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tanach: Lamentations 3: 39 Wherefore doth a living man complain, a strong man because of his sins?
Lamentations 3: 40 Let us search and try our ways, and return to the LORD.
Lamentations 3: 41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
Lamentations 3: 42 We have transgressed and have rebelled; Thou hast not pardoned.
Lamentations 3: 43 Thou hast covered with anger and pursued us; Thou hast slain unsparingly.
Lamentations 3: 44 Thou hast covered Thyself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.
Lamentations 3: 45 Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.
Lamentations 3: 46 All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.
Lamentations 3: 47 Terror and the pit are come upon us, desolation and destruction.
Lamentations 3: 48 Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water, for the breach of the daughter of my people.
Lamentations 3: 49 Mine eye is poured out, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,
The Tanach |
