| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: GEN 31:34 Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in the camel's
furniture, and sat upon them. And Laban searched all the tent, but found
them not.
GEN 31:35 And she said to her father, Let it not displease my lord that
I cannot rise up before thee; for the custom of women is upon me. And he
searched but found not the images.
GEN 31:36 And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered
and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast
so hotly pursued after me?
GEN 31:37 Whereas thou hast searched all my stuff, what hast thou found
of all thy household stuff? set it here before my brethren and thy
King James Bible |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Betty Zane by Zane Grey: Crawford's friends. They stood calmly by and watched the poor victim slowly
burn to death. The Indians yelled and danced round the stake; they devised
every kind of hellish torture. When at last an Indian ran in and tore off the
scalp of the still living man I could bear to see no more, and I turned and
ran. I have been in some tough places, but this last was the worst."
"My God! it is awful--and to think that man Girty was once a white man," cried
Col. Zane.
"He came very near being a dead man," said Jonathan, with grim humor. "I got a
long shot at him and killed his big white horse."
"It's a pity you missed him," said Silas Zane.
"Here comes Wetzel. What will he say about the massacre?" remarked Major
Betty Zane |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from House of Mirth by Edith Wharton: room. Mrs. Fisher's unconventionality was, after all, a merely
superficial divergence from an inherited social creed, while the
manners of the Gormer circle represented their first attempt to
formulate such a creed for themselves.
It was the first time since her return from Europe that Lily had
found herself in a congenial atmosphere, and the stirring of
familiar associations had almost prepared her, as she descended
the stairs before dinner, to enter upon a group of her old
acquaintances. But this expectation was instantly checked by the
reflection that the friends who remained loyal were precisely
those who would be least willing to expose her to such
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