| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Ballads by Robert Louis Stevenson: The fame of their plenty went out, and word of it came to Vaiau.
For the men of Namunu-ura sailed, to the windward far,
Lay in the offing by south where the towns of the Tevas are,
And cast overboard of their plenty; and lo! at the Tevas feet
The surf on all of the beaches tumbled treasures of meat.
In the salt of the sea, a harvest tossed with the refluent foam;
And the children gleaned it in playing, and ate and carried it home;
And the elders stared and debated, and wondered and passed the jest,
But whenever a guest came by eagerly questioned the guest;
And little by little, from one to another, the word went round:
"In all the borders of Paea the victual rots on the ground,
Ballads |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: them, and chased them unto great Zidon, and unto Misrephothmaim, and
unto the valley of Mizpeh eastward; and they smote them, until they left
them none remaining.
JOS 11:9 And Joshua did unto them as the LORD bade him: he houghed
their horses, and burnt their chariots with fire.
JOS 11:10 And Joshua at that time turned back, and took Hazor, and
smote the king thereof with the sword: for Hazor beforetime was the head
of all those kingdoms.
JOS 11:11 And they smote all the souls that were therein with the edge
of the sword, utterly destroying them: there was not any left to
breathe: and he burnt Hazor with fire.
King James Bible |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Nana, Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille by Emile Zola: flame.
"He'll never get dry, and he'll catch cold," said Nana, seeing
Georges beginning to shiver.
And there and with his
delicate young arms showing and his bright damp hair falling almost
to his shoulders, he looked just like a girl.
"Why, he's as slim as I am!" said Nana, putting her arm round his
waist. "Zoe, just come here and see how it suits him. It's were no men's trousers in her house!
She was on the point
of calling the gardener back when an idea struck her. Zoe, who was
unpacking the trunks in the dressing room, brought her mistress a
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