| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why
hast thou forsaken me?
MAT 27:47 Some of them that stood there, when they heard that, said,
This man calleth for Elias.
MAT 27:48 And straightway one of them ran, and took a spunge, and
filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink.
MAT 27:49 The rest said, Let be, let us see whether Elias will come to
save him.
MAT 27:50 Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up
the ghost.
MAT 27:51 And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Astoria by Washington Irving: soon turned and kept generally to the southwest, to avoid the
country infested by the Blackfeet. His route took him across some
of the tributary streams of the Missouri, and over immense
prairies, bounded only by the horizon, and destitute of trees. It
was now the height of summer, and these naked plains would be
intolerable to the traveller were it not for the breezes which
swept over them during the fervor of the day, bringing with them
tempering airs from the distant mountains. To the prevalence of
these breezes, and to the want of all leafy covert, may we also
attribute the freedom from those flies and other insects so
tormenting to man and beast during the summer months, in the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Exiles by Honore de Balzac: Rue du Port-Saint-Landry. To protect the merchandise landed on the
strand, the municipality had constructed a sort of break-water of
masonry, which may still be seen on some old plans of Paris, and which
preserved the piles of the landing-place by meeting the rush of water
and ice at the upper end of the Island. The constable had taken
advantage of this for the foundation of his house, so that there were
several steps up to his door.
Like all the houses of that date, this cottage was crowned by a peaked
roof, forming a gable-end to the front, or half a diamond. To the
great regret of historians, but two or three examples of such roofs
survive in Paris. A round opening gave light to a loft, where the
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