| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his
companion, and every man his neighbour.
EXO 32:28 And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses:
and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.
EXO 32:29 For Moses had said, Consecrate yourselves today to the LORD,
even every man upon his son, and upon his brother; that he may bestow
upon you a blessing this day.
EXO 32:30 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses said unto the
people, Ye have sinned a great sin: and now I will go up unto the LORD;
peradventure I shall make an atonement for your sin.
EXO 32:31 And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, Oh, this people
King James Bible |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: wondered, had a man of his mind ever lived so long and gone so
far among the exacting conditions of the Southwest? The answer
was, perhaps, that Longstreth had guided him, upheld him,
protected him. The coming of Ray Longstreth had been the
entering-wedge of dissension.
"You're too impatient," concluded Longstreth. "You'll ruin any
chance of happiness if you rush Ray. She might be won. If you
told her who I am she'd hate you for ever. She might marry you
to save me, but she'd hate you. That isn't the way. Wait. Play
for time. Be different with her. Cut out your drinking. She
despises that. Let's plan to sell out here--stock, ranch,
The Lone Star Ranger |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring by George Bernard Shaw: accomplishment, the finished style and effortless mastery of
harmony and instrumentation displayed, there is not a bar in the
work which moves us as the same themes moved us in The Valkyries,
nor is anything but external splendor added to the life and humor
of Siegfried.
In the original poem, Brynhild delays her self-immolation on the
pyre of Siegfried to read the assembled choristers a homily on
the efficacy of the Love panacea. "My holiest wisdom's hoard,"
she says, "now I make known to the world. I believe not in
property, nor money, nor godliness, nor hearth and high place,
nor pomp and peerage, nor contract and custom, but in Love. Let
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