| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Collected Articles by Frederick Douglass: in Baltimore and other sea-ports at the time, toward "those who go down
to the sea in ships." "Free trade and sailors' rights" just then expressed
the sentiment of the country. In my clothing I was rigged out in sailor style.
I had on a red shirt and a tarpaulin hat, and a black cravat tied
in sailor fashion carelessly and loosely about my neck. My knowledge
of ships and sailor's talk came much to my assistance, for I knew a ship
from stem to stern, and from keelson to cross-trees, and could talk sailor
like an "old salt." I was well on the way to Havre de Grace before
the conductor came into the negro car to collect tickets and examine
the papers of his black passengers. This was a critical moment in the drama.
My whole future depended upon the decision of this conductor.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: rest I know nothing, save that I run great risk for your sakes,
since if it is discovered that I have aided you, then I shall find
it hard to soften the rage of Cortes, who, the war being won,' and
she sighed, 'does not need me now so much as once he did.'
'I can make shift to hop on my right foot,' I said, 'and for the
rest we must trust to fortune. It can give us no worse gifts than
those we have already.'
'So be it, Teule, and now farewell, for I dare stay no longer. I
can do nothing more. May your good star shine on you and lead you
hence in safety; and Teule, if we never meet again, I pray you
think of me kindly, for there are many in the world who will do
Montezuma's Daughter |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: His Apostle have decided an affair, to have the choice in that affair;
and whoso rebels against God and His Apostle has erred with an obvious
error.
And when thou didst say to him God had shown favour to and thou
hadst shown favour to, 'Keep thy wife to thyself and fear God;' and
thou didst conceal in thy soul what God was about to display; and
didst fear men, though God is more deserving that thou shouldst fear
Him; and when Zaid had fulfilled his desire of her we did wed thee
to her that there should be no hindrance to the believers in the
matter of the wives of their adopted sons when they have fulfilled
their desire of them: and so God's bidding to be done.
The Koran |
