| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: call the apostles liars; and Thamud and the people of Lot, and the
fellows of the Grove, they were the confederates too.
They all did naught but call the apostles liars, and just was the
punishment! Do these await aught else but one noise for which there
shall be no pause?
But they say, 'O our Lord, hasten for us our share before the day of
reckoning!'
Be patient of what they say, and remember our servant David
endowed with might; verily, he turned frequently to us. Verily, we
subjected the mountains to celebrate with him our praises at the
evening and the dawn; and the birds too gathered together, each one
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Aspern Papers by Henry James: would sleep, how you would eat."
"With your permission, I could easily put in a bed and a few
tables and chairs. C'est la moindre des choses and
the affair of an hour or two. I know a little man from whom
I can hire what I should want for a few months, for a trifle,
and my gondolier can bring the things round in his boat.
Of course in this great house you must have a second kitchen,
and my servant, who is a wonderfully handy fellow" (this personage
was an evocation of the moment), "can easily cook me a chop there.
My tastes and habits are of the simplest; I live on flowers!"
And then I ventured to add that if they were very poor
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Main Street by Sinclair Lewis: Guy Pollock, and Martin Mahoney, former livery-stable keeper
and now owner of a garage. She was delighted. She went to
the first meeting rather condescendingly, regarding herself as
the only one besides Guy who knew anything about books
or library methods. She was planning to revolutionize the
whole system.
Her condescension was ruined and her humility wholesomely
increased when she found the board, in the shabby room on the
second floor of the house which had been converted into the
library, not discussing the weather and longing to play checkers,
but talking about books. She discovered that amiable old
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