| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Collected Articles by Frederick Douglass: The abolition of slavery in my native State and throughout the country,
and the lapse of time, render the caution hitherto observed
no longer necessary. But even since the abolition of slavery,
I have sometimes thought it well enough to baffle curiosity
by saying that while slavery existed there were good reasons
for not telling the manner of my escape, and since slavery
had ceased to exist, there was no reason for telling it.
I shall now, however, cease to avail myself of this formula, and,
as far as I can, endeavor to satisfy this very natural curiosity.
I should, perhaps, have yielded to that feeling sooner, had there been
anything very heroic or thrilling in the incidents connected with
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tanach: Leviticus 26: 20 And your strength shall be spent in vain; for your land shall not yield her produce, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruit.
Leviticus 26: 21 And if ye walk contrary unto Me, and will not hearken unto Me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.
Leviticus 26: 22 And I will send the beast of the field among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your ways shall become desolate.
Leviticus 26: 23 And if in spite of these things ye will not be corrected unto Me, but will walk contrary unto Me;
Leviticus 26: 24 then will I also walk contrary unto you; and I will smite you, even I, seven times for your sins.
Leviticus 26: 25 And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall execute the vengeance of the covenant; and ye shall be gathered together within your cities; and I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
Leviticus 26: 26 When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight; and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.
Leviticus 26: 27 And if ye will not for all this hearken unto Me, but walk contrary unto Me;
Leviticus 26: 28 then I will walk contrary unto you in fury; and I also will chastise you seven times for your sins.
Leviticus 26: 29 And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.
The Tanach |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot: The typist home at teatime, clears her breakfast, lights
Her stove, and lays out food in tins.
Out of the window perilously spread
Her drying combinations touched by the sun's last rays,
On the divan are piled (at night her bed)
Stockings, slippers, camisoles, and stays.
I Tiresias, old man with wrinkled dugs
Perceived the scene, and foretold the rest --
I too awaited the expected guest. 230
He, the young man carbuncular, arrives,
A small house agent's clerk, with one bold stare,
The Waste Land |
