| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Four Arthurian Romances by Chretien DeTroyes: time, you would not be forgiven." Then turning his shield and
lance, he rushes at the knight. The latter sees him coming and
challenges him. When Erec hears him, he defies him. Both give
spur and clash together, holding their lances at full extent.
But he missed Erec, while Erec used him hard; for he knew well
the right attack. He strikes him on the shield so fiercely that
he cracks it from top to bottom. Nor is his hauberk any
protection: Erec pierces and crushes it in the middle of his
breast, and thrusts a foot and a half of his lance into his body.
When he drew back, he pulled out the shaft. And the other fell
to earth. He must needs die, for the blade had drunk of his
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: (saying), "Serve ye none but God."' They said, 'If our Lord pleased He
would send down angels; so we in what ye are sent with disbelieve.'
And as for 'Ad, they were big with. pride in the land, without
right, and said, 'Who is stronger than us in might?' Did they not
see that God who created them He was stronger than they in might?
But they did gainsay our signs. And we sent upon them a cold blast
in unfortunate days, that we might make them taste the torment of
disgrace in the life of this world;-but the torment of the hereafter
is more disgraceful, and they shall not be helped.
And as for Thamud we guided them; but they preferred blindness to
guidance, and the thunderclap of the torment of abasement caught
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Oscar Wilde Miscellaneous by Oscar Wilde: MYRRHINA. The dead are terrible. I am afraid of Death.
FIRST MAN. Death is not a god. He is only the servant of the gods.
MYRRHINA. He is the only god I am afraid of. Ye have seen many of
the gods?
FIRST MAN. We have seen many of them. One sees them chiefly at
night time. They pass one by very swiftly. Once we saw some of the
gods at daybreak. They were walking across a plain.
MYRRHINA. Once as I was passing through the market place I heard a
sophist from Cilicia say that there is only one God. He said it
before many people.
FIRST MAN. That cannot be true. We have ourselves seen many,
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