| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: and if thou wilt not redeem it, then thou shalt break his neck: and all
the firstborn of man among thy children shalt thou redeem.
EXO 13:14 And it shall be when thy son asketh thee in time to come,
saying, What is this? that thou shalt say unto him, By strength of hand
the LORD brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage:
EXO 13:15 And it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go,
that the LORD slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the
firstborn of man, and the firstborn of beast: therefore I sacrifice to
the LORD all that openeth the matrix, being males; but all the firstborn
of my children I redeem.
EXO 13:16 And it shall be for a token upon thine hand, and for
King James Bible |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Jolly Corner by Henry James: the last she went a little further than he had done himself. "And
then how do you know? You may still, after all, want to live
here." It rather indeed pulled him up, for it wasn't what he had
been thinking, at least in her sense of the words, "You mean I may
decide to stay on for the sake of it?"
"Well, WITH such a home - !" But, quite beautifully, she had too
much tact to dot so monstrous an I, and it was precisely an
illustration of the way she didn't rattle. How could any one - of
any wit - insist on any one else's "wanting" to live in New York?
"Oh," he said, "I MIGHT have lived here (since I had my opportunity
early in life); I might have put in here all these years. Then
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Mistress Wilding by Rafael Sabatini: that she was to marry him; yet it hurt her sorely to retain them.
On her side she made no dispositions for the marriage, but went about
her daily tasks as though she were to remain a maid at Lupton House
for a time as yet indefinite.
In Diana, Wilding had - though he was far from guessing it - an
entirely exceptional ally. Lady Horton, too, was favourably disposed
towards him. A foolish, worldly woman, who never probed beneath life's
surface, nor indeed dreamed that anything existed in life beyond that
to which her five senses testified, she was content placidly to
contemplate the advantages that must accrue to her niece from this
alliance.
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