| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: GEN 5:3 And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in
his own likeness, and after his image; and called his name Seth:
GEN 5:4 And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight
hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:
GEN 5:5 And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty
years: and he died.
GEN 5:6 And Seth lived an hundred and five years, and begat Enos:
GEN 5:7 And Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and seven
years, and begat sons and daughters:
GEN 5:8 And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years:
and he died.
King James Bible |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Night and Day by Virginia Woolf: larger view, to share the vast desires and sufferings of the mass of
mankind. She had been too lately and too roughly mastered by facts to
take an easy pleasure in the relief of renunciation; such satisfaction
as she felt came only from the discovery that, having renounced
everything that made life happy, easy, splendid, individual, there
remained a hard reality, unimpaired by one's personal adventures,
remote as the stars, unquenchable as they are.
While Mary Datchet was undergoing this curious transformation from the
particular to the universal, Mrs. Seal remembered her duties with
regard to the kettle and the gas-fire. She was a little surprised to
find that Mary had drawn her chair to the window, and, having lit the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mucker by Edgar Rice Burroughs: And now Barbara, clothed in some wondrous foreign creation,
belied by her very appearance the expression that suffused her eyes.
No, Billy Byrne, the mucker, did not belong there. Nor ever
could he belong, more than Barbara ever could have "belonged"
on Grand Avenue. And Billy Byrne knew it now. His
heart went cold. The bottom seemed suddenly to have
dropped out of his life.
Bravely he had battled to forget this wonderful creature, or,
rather, his hopeless love for her--her he could never forget.
But the note from her, and the sight of her had but served to
rekindle the old fire within his breast.
The Mucker |
