| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: Every soul is pledged for what it earns; except the fellows of the
right: in gardens shall they ask each other about the sinners!-'What
drove you into hell-fire?'
They shall say, 'We weren't of those who prayed; we didn't feed
the poor; but we did plunge into discussion with those who plunged,
and we called the judgment day a lie until the certainty did come to
us!'
But there shall not profit them the intercession of the
intercessors.
What ailed them that they turned away from the memorial as though
they were timid asses fleeing from a lion?
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Ebb-Tide by Stevenson & Osbourne: last; and that went plump between the eyes. It was pretty
practice.'
'You could do that?' asked Herrick, with a sudden chill.
'Oh, I can do anything,' returned the other. 'You do not
understand: what must be, must.'
They were now come near to the back part of the house. One
of the men was engaged about the cooking fire, which burned
with the clear, fierce, essential radiance of cocoanut shells. A
fragrance of strange meats was in the air. All round in the
verandahs lamps were lighted, so that the place shone abroad
in the dusk of the trees with many complicated patterns of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Hero of Our Time by M.Y. Lermontov: That would be so base, so vile, that the mere
supposition . . . Oh, no!" she added, in a voice
of tender trustfulness; "there is nothing in me
which would preclude respect; is it not so?
Your presumptuous action . . . I must, I must
forgive you for it, because I permitted it. . .
Answer, speak, I want to hear your voice!" . . .
There was such womanly impatience in her last
words that, involuntarily, I smiled; happily it
was beginning to grow dusk. . . I made no
answer.
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