| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wife, et al by Anton Chekhov: handicrafts. Our sect is maintained by that superstition, and it
is not for you and me to destroy it. God forbid!"
After patience the younger generation comes in for a dressing
too.
"Our audiences have degenerated," sighs Mihail Fyodorovitch. "Not
to speak of ideals and all the rest of it, if only they were
capable of work and rational thought! In fact, it's a case of 'I
look with mournful eyes on the young men of today.' "
"Yes; they have degenerated horribly," Katya agrees. "Tell me,
have you had one man of distinction among them for the last five
or ten years?"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle: strange old man. Then his worship beckoned to him, saying,
"Come hither, father, I have a few words to say to thee."
So Little John, for it was none other than he, came forward,
and the Sheriff looked upon him, thinking that there
was something strangely familiar in the face before him.
"How, now," said he, "methinks I have seen thee before.
What may thy name be, father?"
"Please Your Worship," said Little John, in a cracked voice like that
of an old man, "my name is Giles Hobble, at Your Worship's service."
"Giles Hobble, Giles Hobble," muttered the Sheriff to himself, turning over
the names that he had in his mind to try to find one to fit to this.
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: That (is so). Whoever punishes with the like of what he has been
injured with, and shall then be outraged again, God shall surely
help him; verily, God pardons, forgives.
That for that God joins on the night to the day, and joins on the
day to the night, and that God is hearing, seeing; that is for that
God is the truth, and for that what ye call on beside Him is
falsehood, and that God is the high, the great.
Hast thou not seen that God sends down from the sky water, and on
the morrow the earth is green? verily, God is kind and well aware.
His is what is in the heavens and what is in the earth; and, verily,
God is rich and to be praised.
The Koran |
