| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf: her remember how she was such and such a person, had such and such
relations to people, she took her hand and raised her brush. For a
moment it stayed trembling in a painful but exciting ecstasy in the
air. Where to begin?--that was the question at what point to make
the first mark? One line placed on the canvas committed her to
innumerable risks, to frequent and irrevocable decisions. All that in
idea seemed simple became in practice immediately complex; as the waves
shape themselves symmetrically from the cliff top, but to the swimmer
among them are divided by steep gulfs, and foaming crests. Still the
risk must be run; the mark made.
With a curious physical sensation, as if she were urged forward and at
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Talisman by Walter Scott: the same time he held the lamp to the Scot, who followed him for
many steps up the narrow ascent. At length they rested in a
small vault of irregular form, in one nook of which the staircase
terminated, while in another corner a corresponding stair was
seen to continue the ascent. In a third angle was a Gothic door,
very rudely ornamented with the usual attributes of clustered
columns and carving, and defended by a wicket, strongly guarded
with iron, and studded with large nails. To this last point the
hermit directed his steps, which seemed to falter as he
approached it.
"Put off thy shoes," he said to his attendant; "the ground on
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: firstborn, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath: for he is
the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his.
DEU 21:18 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not
obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when
they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:
DEU 21:19 Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and
bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his
place;
DEU 21:20 And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son
is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton,
and a drunkard.
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