| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: Do they say, 'He hath devised it?' say then, 'Bring a surah like
it,- and call, if ye can, on other than God, if ye do tell the truth!'
Yet they call that a lie, the knowledge of which they cannot
compass, while its interpretation has not yet come to them; so did
those before them charge with lying, and see what was the end of the
unjust!
Of them are some who believe therein; and of them are some who do
not believe therein; but thy Lord knows best who are corrupters.
But if they call thee liar, say, 'I have my work, and ye have your
work; ye are clear of what I work, and I am clear of what ye work.'
There are some of them who listen to thee- canst thou make the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: was leading that the sheepman's interest was aroused. For on the
frontier it takes a strong, competent miscreant to be a bad man
and survive. Ineffectives and weaklings are quickly weeded out to
their graves or the penitentiaries.
The boy was manifestly under great fear of his chief, but the
curly haired young Hermes who kept watch with him had a very
winning smile and a charming manner when he cared to exert it.
Almost in spite of himself the youngster was led to talk. It
seemed that he had but lately joined the Teton-Shoshones outfit
of desperadoes, and between the lines Bannister easily read that
his cousin's masterful compulsion had coerced the young fellow.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Heart of the West by O. Henry: yellow gloves to protect his hands. And the sight of his torment
coming to pester him with her elfin pranks--coming to plunder his
strawberry vines like a mischievous schoolboy--roused all his anger.
"I told you to keep away from here," said Dry Valley. "Go back to your
home."
Panchita moved slowly toward him.
Dry Valley cracked his whip.
"Go back home," said Dry Valley, savagely, "and play theatricals some
more. You'd make a fine man. You've made a fine one of me."
She came a step nearer, silent, and with that strange, defiant, steady
shine in her eyes that had always puzzled him. Now it stirred his
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