| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from 1492 by Mary Johntson: next time he was painting in the church of Santa Maria.
The third time he sat in a garden, sipped wine and talked.''
``I hold you,'' he said, ``to be a fortunate fisherman!
Just as this fisher I am painting, and whether it is Andrew
or Mark, I do not yet know, was a most fortunate fisherman!''
He ended meditatively, ``Though whoever it is,
probably he was crucified or beheaded or burned.''
I felt a certain shiver of premonition. The day that had
been warm and bright turned in a flash ashy and chill. Then
it swung back to its first fair seeming, or not to its first, but
to a deeper, brighter yet. The Fisherman by Galilee was
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Christ in Flanders by Honore de Balzac: lullaby.
"If we ever get there at all," the soldier remarked to the peasant,
"it will be because the Almighty is bent on keeping us alive."
"Ah! He is the Master," said the old woman, "but I think it will be
His good pleasure to take us to Himself. Just look at that light down
there . . ." and she nodded her head as she spoke towards the sunset.
Streaks of fiery red glared from behind the masses of crimson-flushed
brown cloud that seemed about to unloose a furious gale. There was a
smothered murmur of the sea, a moaning sound that seemed to come from
the depths, a low warning growl, such as a dog gives when he only
means mischief as yet. After all, Ostend was not far away. Perhaps
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: knock him out of his saddle an thou lovest me!"
Myles, in his high-keyed nervousness, could not forbear a short
hysterical laugh at his friend's warmth of enthusiasm. He took
the fresh lance in his hand, and then, seeing that his opponent
was walking his horse slowly up and down at his end of the lists,
did the same during the little time of rest before the next
encounter.
When, in answer to the command of the Marshal, he took his place
a second time, he found himself calmer and more collected than
before, but every faculty no less intensely fixed than it had
been at first. Once more the Marshal raised his baton, once more
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