| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: grievous torment?'
Said he, 'She desired me for my person.' And a witness from among
her family bore witness: 'If his shirt be rent from in front, then she
speaks the truth and he is of the liars; but if his shirt be rent from
behind, then she lies and he is of the truth tellers.'
And when he saw his shirt rent from behind he said, 'This is one
of your tricks; verily, your tricks are mighty! Joseph! turn aside
from this. And do thou, woman, ask pardon for thy fault; verily,
thou wert of the sinners.'
And women in the city said, 'The wife of the prince desires her
young man for his person; he has infatuated her with love: verily,
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll: know the lid's open?'
`I didn't know it,' the Knight said, a shade of vexation
passing over his face. `Then all the things much have fallen
out! And the box is no use without them.' He unfastened it as
he spoke, and was just going to throw it into the bushes,
when a sudden thought seemed to strike him, and he hung it carefully
on a tree. `Can you guess why I did that?' he said to Alice.
Alice shook her head.
`In hopes some bees may make a nest in it--then I should get the honey.'
`But you've got a bee-hive--or something like one--fastened to
the saddle,' said Alice.
Through the Looking-Glass |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London: stood midway between Sixty Mile Post and the Stuart River; and men
who made it a custom to travel the trail to Dawson, likened him to
a robber baron, perched in his fortress and exacting toll from the
caravans that used his ill-kept roads. Since a certain amount of
history was required in the construction of this figure, the less
cultured wayfarers from Stuart River were prone to describe him
after a still more primordial fashion, in which a command of
strong adjectives was to be chiefly noted.
This cabin was not his, by the way, having been built several
years previously by a couple of miners who had got out a raft of
logs at that point for a grub-stake. They had been most
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