| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: do not know how to hide the painful impression that your letter
has made upon me, my dear son. What can you have felt when you
were moved to send this chill of dread through my heart? It must
have been very painful to you to write the letter that gave me so
much pain as I read it. To what courses are you committed? You
are going to appear to be something that you are not, and your
whole life and success depends upon this? You are about to see a
society into which you cannot enter without rushing into expense
that you cannot afford, without losing precious time that is
needed for your studies. Ah! my dear Eugene, believe your mother,
crooked ways cannot lead to great ends. Patience and endurance
Father Goriot |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner: the neck, and over the white curls of the sheepskin on which she sat.
Louder and more fiercely yet howled the storm; but Em sang on, and heard
nothing but the words of her song, and heard them only faintly, as
something restful. It was an old, childish song she had often heard her
mother sing long ago:
Where the reeds dance by the river,
Where the willow's song is said,
On the face of the morning water,
Is reflected a white flower's head.
She folded her hands and sang the next verse dreamily:
Where the reeds shake by the river,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: to us, or there comes a sign. So spake those before them like unto
their speech. Their hearts are all alike. We have made manifest the
signs unto a people that are sure.
We have sent thee with the truth, a bearer of good tidings and of
warning, and thou shalt not be questioned as to the fellows of hell.
The Jews will not be satisfied with thee, nor yet the Christians,
until thou followest their creed. Say, 'God's guidance is the
guidance;' and if thou followest their lusts after the knowledge
that has come to thee, thou hast not then from God a patron or a help.
They to whom we have brought the Book and who read it as it should
be read, believe therein; and whoso disbelieve therein, 'tis they
The Koran |
