| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from When the Sleeper Wakes by H. G. Wells: was to start. Things were being shouted at him,
questions, warnings. They bothered him. He wanted to
think about the aeropile, to recall every item of his
previous experience. He waved the people from him,
saw the man in yellow dropping off through the ribs,
saw the crowd cleft down the line of the girders by his
gesture.
For a moment he was motionless, staring at the
levers, the wheel by which the engine shifted, and all
the delicate appliances of which he knew so little. His
eye caught a spirit level with the bubble towards him,
When the Sleeper Wakes |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: Dost thou not see that the ship rides on in the sea by the favour of
God, that He may show you of His signs? verily, in that are signs to
every grateful person.
And when a wave like shadows covers them, they call on God, being
sincere in their religion; and when He saves them to the shore, then
amongst them are some who halt between two opinions. But none gainsays
our signs save every perfidious misbeliever.
O ye folk! fear your Lord and dread the day when the father shall
not atone for his son, nor shall the child atone aught for its parent.
Verily, the promise of God is true! Say, 'Let not the life of this
world beguile you; and let not the beguiler beguile you concerning
The Koran |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Glasses by Henry James: in kindness have to tell me; knew even why Flora, while I stared at
her from the stalls, had misled me by the use of ivory and crystal
and by appearing to recognise me and smile. She leaned back in her
chair in luxurious ease: I had from the first become aware that
the way she fingered her pearls was a sharp image of the wedded
state. Nothing of old had seemed wanting to her assurance, but I
hadn't then dreamed of the art with which she would wear that
assurance as a married woman. She had taken him when everything
had failed; he had taken her when she herself had done so. His
embarrassed eyes confessed it all, confessed the deep peace he
found in it. They only didn't tell me why he had not written to
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