| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne: stream? I have but to trace it back, and I must come upon them.
This conclusion revived my spirits, and I resolved to resume my march
without loss of time.
How I then blessed my uncle's foresight in preventing the hunter from
stopping up the hole in the granite. This beneficent spring, after
having satisfied our thirst on the road, would now be my guide among
the windings of the terrestrial crust.
Before starting afresh I thought a wash would do me good. I stooped
to bathe my face in the Hansbach.
To my stupefaction and utter dismay my feet trod only - the rough dry
granite. The stream was no longer at my feet.
Journey to the Center of the Earth |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Reef by Edith Wharton: would never again be pure...
"I swear to you," she heard Darrow saying, "it was simply
that, and nothing more."
She wondered at his composure, his competence, at his
knowing so exactly what to say. No doubt men often had to
make such explanations: they had the formulas by heart...A
leaden lassitude descended on her. She passed from flame
and torment into a colourless cold world where everything
surrounding her seemed equally indifferent and remote. For
a moment she simply ceased to feel.
She became aware that Darrow was waiting for her to speak,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: annoyance, like him who expends what he has for the sake of
appearances before men, and believes not in God and the last day;
for his likeness is as the likeness of a flint with soil upon it,
and a heavy shower falls on it and leaves it bare rock; they can do
nought with what they earn, for God guides not the misbelieving folk.
But the likeness of those who expend their wealth craving the
goodwill of God, and as an insurance for their souls, is as the
likeness of a garden on a hill. A heavy shower falls on it, and it
brings forth its eatables twofold; and if no heavy shower falls on it,
the dew does; and God on what ye do doth look.
Would one of you fain have a garden of palms and vines, with
The Koran |
