| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: me a brother that ye have from your father; do ye not see that I
give good measure, and that I am the best of entertainers? But if ye
bring him not to me, no measure shall ye have with me, nor shall ye
come nigh me.'
They said, 'We will desire him of our father, and we will surely
do it.'
Then he said to his young men, 'Put their chattels in their packs,
haply they may know it when they are come back to their family;
haply they may return.'
And when they returned to their father, they said, 'O our father!
Measure is withheld from us; so send with us our brother that we may
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lady Susan by Jane Austen: you always regard me as unalterably yours,
S. VERNON
XL
LADY DE COURCY TO MRS. VERNON
My dear Catherine,--I have charming news for you, and if I had not sent
off my letter this morning you might have been spared the vexation of
knowing of Reginald's being gone to London, for he is returned. Reginald is
returned, not to ask our consent to his marrying Lady Susan, but to tell us
they are parted for ever. He has been only an hour in the house, and I have
not been able to learn particulars, for he is so very low that I have not
the heart to ask questions, but I hope we shall soon know all. This is the
Lady Susan |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Beast in the Jungle by Henry James: would none the less never again so cut himself off from the spot;
he would come back to it every month, for if he did nothing else by
its aid he at least held up his head. It thus grew for him, in the
oddest way, a positive resource; he carried out his idea of
periodical returns, which took their place at last among the most
inveterate of his habits. What it all amounted to, oddly enough,
was that in his finally so simplified world this garden of death
gave him the few square feet of earth on which he could still most
live. It was as if, being nothing anywhere else for any one,
nothing even for himself, he were just everything here, and if not
for a crowd of witnesses or indeed for any witness but John
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