| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: against them.
Ye will find others who seek for quarter from you, and quarter
from their own people; whenever they return to sedition they shall
be overturned therein: but if they retire not from you, nor offer
you peace, nor restrain their hands, then seize them and kill them
wheresoever ye find them;- over these we have made for you manifest
power.
It is not for a believer to kill a believer save by mistake; and
whosoever kills a believer by mistake then let him free a believing
neck; and the blood-money must be paid to his people save what they
shall remit as alms. But if he be from a tribe hostile to you and
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Poems by Bronte Sisters: It may be just to slay;
But, traitor, traitor,--from THAT word
All true breasts shrink away!
Oh, I would give my heart to death,
To keep my honour fair;
Yet, I'll not give my inward faith
My honour's NAME to spare!
Not even to keep your priceless love,
Dare I, Beloved, deceive;
This treason should the future prove,
Then, only then, believe!
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Youth by Joseph Conrad: anybody stand this kind of thing? It's enough to drive
a man out of his mind. I'll report him. . . . I'll get the
Assistant Resident to give him the sack, by . . . See--
there's no light. It's out, isn't it? I take you to witness
the light's out. There should be a light, you know. A
red light on the--'
"'There was a light,' I said, mildly.
"'But it's out, man! What's the use of talking like
this? You can see for yourself it's out--don't you? If
you had to take a valuable steamer along this God-for-
saken coast you would want a light too. I'll kick him
Youth |
