| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from St. Ives by Robert Louis Stevenson: gusts. Now you would say the lamps had been blown out from end to
end of the long thoroughfare; now, in a lull, they would revive,
re-multiply, shine again on the wet pavements, and make darkness
sparingly visible.
By the time I had got to the corner of the Lothian Road there was a
distinct improvement. For one thing, I had now my shoulder to the
wind; for a second, I came in the lee of my old prison-house, the
Castle; and, at any rate, the excessive fury of the blast was
itself moderating. The thought of what errand I was on re-awoke
within me, and I seemed to breast the rough weather with increasing
ease. With such a destination, what mattered a little buffeting of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tanach: 2_Kings 21: 22 And he forsook the LORD, the God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of the LORD.
2_Kings 21: 23 And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and put the king to death in his own house.
2_Kings 21: 24 But the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead.
2_Kings 21: 25 Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2_Kings 21: 26 And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzza; and Josiah his son reigned in his stead.
2_Kings 22: 1 Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign; and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Jedidah the daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath.
2_Kings 22: 2 And he did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, and walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left.
2_Kings 22: 3 And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, that the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of the LORD, saying.
2_Kings 22: 4 'Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the money which is brought into the house of the LORD, which the keepers of the door have gathered of the people;
2_Kings 22: 5 and let them deliver it into the hand of the workmen that have the oversight of the house of the LORD; and let them give it to the workmen that are in the house of the LORD, to repair the breaches of the house;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Wrecker by Stevenson & Osbourne: day before, turning upon Myner. Ah, that day before! the day
before Waterloo, the day before the Flood; the day before I had
sold the roof over my head, my future, and my self-respect, for
a dinner at the Cafe Cluny!
In the midst of these lamentations the famous registered letter
came to my door, with healing under its seals. It bore the
postmark of San Francisco, where Pinkerton was already
struggling to the neck in multifarious affairs: it renewed the
offer of an allowance, which his improved estate permitted him
to announce at the figure of two hundred francs a month; and in
case I was in some immediate pinch, it enclosed an
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