| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Smalcald Articles by Dr. Martin Luther: adversary, and he will press the attack home [pursue and
destroy him] both by His Spirit and coming. Amen.
For in the Council we will stand not before the Emperor or the
political magistrate, as at Augsburg (where the Emperor
published a most gracious edict, and caused matters to be
heard kindly [and dispassionately]), but [we will appear]
before the Pope and devil himself, who intends to listen to
nothing, but merely [when the case has been publicly
announced] to condemn, to murder and to force us to idolatry.
Therefore we ought not here to kiss his feet, or to say: Thou
art my gracious lord, but as the angel in Zechariah 3, 2 said
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Some Reminiscences by Joseph Conrad: double chin) in a blue woollen shirt and roomy breeches pulled up
very high, even to the level of his breast-bone, by a pair of
braces quite exposed to public view. As where he stood there was
no bulwark but only a rail and stanchions I was able to take in
at a glance the whole of his voluminous person from his feet to
the high crown of his soft black hat, which sat like an absurd
flanged cone on his big head. The grotesque and massive space of
that deck hand (I suppose he was that--very likely the lamp-
trimmer) surprised me very much. My course of reading, of
dreaming and longing for the sea had not prepared me for a sea-
brother of that sort. I never met again a figure in the least
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis: and nigh a hundred men with guns swept right
into the middle of that square and pulled their
hosses up.
CHAPTER XIII
I seen the feller from the telephone exchange
run down the street a little ways as the
first rush hit the square, and fire his pistol
twice. Then he turned and made fur an alleyway,
but as he turned they let him have it. He throwed
up his arms and made one long stagger, right
acrost the bar of light that streamed out of the
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