| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: made, to consecrate and to sanctify them: but a stranger shall not eat
thereof, because they are holy.
EXO 29:34 And if ought of the flesh of the consecrations, or of the
bread, remain unto the morning, then thou shalt burn the remainder with
fire: it shall not be eaten, because it is holy.
EXO 29:35 And thus shalt thou do unto Aaron, and to his sons, according
to all things which I have commanded thee: seven days shalt thou
consecrate them.
EXO 29:36 And thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering
for atonement: and thou shalt cleanse the altar, when thou hast made an
atonement for it, and thou shalt anoint it, to sanctify it.
King James Bible |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Red Inn by Honore de Balzac: apparently endowed with a very ordinary mind. Hitherto I had scarcely
noticed him, but now his face, possibly darkened by a change in the
lights, seemed to me to have altered its character; it had certainly
grown ghastly; violet tones were spreading over it; you might have
thought it the cadaverous head of a dying man. Motionless as the
personages painted on a diorama, his stupefied eyes were fixed on the
sparkling facets of a cut-glass stopper, but certainly without
observing them; he seemed to be engulfed in some weird contemplation
of the future or the past. When I had long examined that puzzling face
I began to reflect about it. "Is he ill?" I said to myself. "Has he
drunk too much wine? Is he ruined by a drop in the Funds? Is he
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo: "Give it to me," said Jean Valjean.
Gavroche held the paper elevated above his head.
"Don't go and fancy it's a love letter. It is for a woman,
but it's for the people. We men fight and we respect the fair sex.
We are not as they are in fine society, where there are lions who send
chickens[55] to camels."
[55] Love letters.
"Give it to me."
"After all," continued Gavroche, "you have the air of an honest man."
"Give it to me quick."
"Catch hold of it."
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