| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: trial, he turns round again, and loses this world and the next-that is
an obvious loss. He calls, besides God, on what can neither harm him
nor profit him;-that is a wide error.
He calls on him whose harm is nigher than his profit,-a bad lord and
a bad comrade.
Verily, God makes those who believe and do aright enter into gardens
beneath which rivers flow; verily, God does what He will.
He who thinks that God will never help him in this world or the
next-let him stretch a cord to the roof and put an end to himself; and
let him cut it and see if his stratagem will remove what he is enraged
at.
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Pocket Diary Found in the Snow by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: a glove from a cupboard. Muller put it in his pocket and told the
woman not to leave the house for anything, as she might be sent for
to come to the police station at any moment. Then he went out into
the street with Amster. When they were outside in the sunlight, he
looked at the glove. It was a remarkably small size, made for a
man with a slender, delicate hand, not at all in accordance with the
large stout body of the man described by the landlady. Muller put
his hand into the glove and found something pushed up into the
middle finger. He took it out and found that it was a crumpled
tramway ticket.
"Look out for a shabby old closed coupe, with a driver about forty
|
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen: She met with nothing, however, to distress or frighten her.
Her youth, civil manners, and liberal pay procured her all
the attention that a traveller like herself could require;
and stopping only to change horses, she travelled
on for about eleven hours without accident or alarm,
and between six and seven o'clock in the evening found
herself entering Fullerton.
A heroine returning, at the close of her career,
to her native village, in all the triumph of recovered
reputation, and all the dignity of a countess, with a long
train of noble relations in their several phaetons,
Northanger Abbey |
