| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: for them is grievous woe!
They swear by God to please you; but God and His Apostle are more
worthy for them to please if they be believers. Do they not know
that whoso setteth himself against God and His Apostle, for him is the
fire of hell, to dwell therein for aye? and that is mighty shame!
The hypocrites are cautious lest there be revealed against them a
surah to inform them of what is in their hearts; say, 'Mock ye!
verily, God will bring forth that of which ye are so cautious!' But if
thou shouldst ask them, they will say, 'We did but discuss and
jest;' say, 'Was it at God and His signs, and His Apostle, that ye
mocked?'
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Drama on the Seashore by Honore de Balzac: "How beautiful this silence!" she said to me; "and how the depth of it
is deepened by the rhythmic quiver of the wave upon the shore."
"If you will give your understanding to the three immensities which
surround us, the water, the air, and the sands, and listen exclusively
to the repeating sounds of flux and reflux," I answered her, "you will
not be able to endure their speech; you will think it is uttering a
thought which will annihilate you. Last evening, at sunset, I had that
sensation; and it exhausted me."
"Oh! let us talk, let us talk," she said, after a long pause. "I
understand it. No orator was ever more terrible. I think," she
continued, presently, "that I perceive the causes of the harmonies
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: goings on and the worst thing was the way they were putting ideas
in the poor darkies' heads.
"My dear, they want to let the darkies vote! Did you ever hear of
anything more silly? Though--I don't know--now that I think about
it, Uncle Peter has much more sense than any Republican I ever saw
and much better manners but, of course, Uncle Peter is far too well
bred to want to vote. But the very notion has upset the darkies
till they're right addled. And some of them are so insolent. Your
life isn't safe on the streets after dark and even in the broad
daylight they push ladies off the sidewalks into the mud. And if
any gentleman dares to protest, they arrest him and-- My dear, did
Gone With the Wind |
