| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Prince of Bohemia by Honore de Balzac: doubtless akin to the Highland 'second-sight,' and that slow fusion of
two natures which realizes Plato's 'man-woman.' But if Charles Edward
did not love, he was loved to distraction. Claudine found love made
complete, body and soul; in her, in short, La Palferine awakened the
one passion of her life; while for him Claudine was only a most
charming mistress. The Devil himself, a most potent magician
certainly, with all hell at his back, could never have changed the
natures of these two unequal fires. I dare affirm that Claudine not
unfrequently bored Charles Edward.
" 'Stale fish and the woman you do not love are only fit to fling out
of the window after three days,' he used to say.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tanach: Exodus 26: 21 And their forty sockets of silver: two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
Exodus 26: 22 And for the hinder part of the tabernacle westward thou shalt make six boards.
Exodus 26: 23 And two boards shalt thou make for the corners of the tabernacle in the hinder part.
Exodus 26: 24 And they shall be double beneath, and in like manner they shall be complete unto the top thereof unto the first ring; thus shall it be for them both; they shall be for the two corners.
Exodus 26: 25 Thus there shall be eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets: two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
Exodus 26: 26 And thou shalt make bars of acacia-wood: five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,
Exodus 26: 27 and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the side of the tabernacle, for the hinder part westward;
Exodus 26: 28 and the middle bar in the midst of the boards, which shall pass through from end to end.
Exodus 26: 29 And thou shalt overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold for holders for the bars; and thou shalt overlay the bars with gold.
Exodus 26: 30 And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion thereof which hath been shown thee in the mount.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Life in the Iron-Mills by Rebecca Davis: as a good hand in a fight.
For other reasons, too, he was not popular. Not one of
themselves, they felt that, though outwardly as filthy and ash-
covered; silent, with foreign thoughts and longings breaking out
through his quietness in innumerable curious ways: this one,
for instance. In the neighboring furnace-buildings lay great
heaps of the refuse from the ore after the pig-metal is run.
Korl we call it here: a light, porous substance, of a delicate,
waxen, flesh-colored tinge. Out of the blocks of this korl,
Wolfe, in his off-hours from the furnace, had a habit of
chipping and moulding figures,--hideous, fantastic enough, but
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