| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Adieu by Honore de Balzac: who is tenderly beloved, whose eyes will smile to them at waking, can
understand the sweet yet terrible emotion that shook the colonel's
soul. To him, this sleep was an illusion; the waking might be death,
death in its most awful form. Suddenly, a little goat jumped in three
bounds to the bench, and smelt at Stephanie, who waked at the sound.
She sprang to her feet, but so lightly that the movement did not
frighten the freakish animal; then she caught sight of Philippe, and
darted away, followed by her four-footed friend, to a hedge of elders;
there she uttered the same little cry like a frightened bird, which
the two men had heard near the other gate. Then she climbed an acacia,
and nestling into its tufted top, she watched the stranger with the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs: the weapon flash in the sun.
Words passed between Clayton and the captain, the former
making it plain that he was disgusted with the brutality
displayed toward the crew, nor would he countenance anything
further of the kind while he and Lady Greystoke remained
passengers.
The captain was on the point of making an angry reply,
but, thinking better of it, turned on his heel and black and
scowling, strode aft.
He did not care to antagonize an English official, for the
Queen's mighty arm wielded a punitive instrument which he could
Tarzan of the Apes |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: is this?' Say, 'It is from yourselves. Verily, God is mighty over
all.'
And what befel you the day when the two armies met, it was by
God's permission; that He might know the believers, and might know
those who behaved hypocritically; for it was said to them, 'Come,
fight in God's way,' or 'repel (the foe);' they said, 'If we knew
how to fight we would surely follow you.' They were that day far
nigher unto misbelief than they were to faith. They say with their
mouths what is not in their hearts, but God doth know best what they
hid. Those who said of their brethren, whilst they themselves stayed
at home, 'Had they obeyed us they would not have been killed.' Say,
The Koran |
