| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: What sign of fire was there in that? To be sure, also, there was
an ugly place below by the sea-shore, called the Phlegraen fields,
where smoke and brimstone came out of the ground, and a lake
called Avernus over which poisonous gases hung, and which (old
stories told) was one of the mouths of the Nether Pit. But what
of that? It had never harmed any one, and how could it harm them?
So they all lived on, merrily and happily enough, till, in the
year A.D. 79 (that was eight years, you know, after the Emperor
Titus destroyed Jerusalem), there was stationed in the Bay of
Naples a Roman admiral, called Pliny, who was also a very studious
and learned man, and author of a famous old book on natural
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: God has struck out a parable: a city which was safe and quiet, its
provision came to it in plenty from every place, and then it denied
God's favours, and God made it feel clothing of hunger and fear, for
that which they had wrought.
And there came to them an apostle from amongst themselves, but
they called him a liar, and the torment seized them, while yet they
were unjust.
Eat, then, from what God has provided you with, things lawful and
good, and give thanks for the favours of God, if it be Him ye serve.
He has only forbidden you that which dies of itself, and blood,
and the flesh of swine, and that which is devoted to other than God;
The Koran |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Copy-Cat & Other Stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: rug over the damp grass and brought out chairs.
There were five chairs, although there were only
four girls. Annie gazed over the yard and down the
street. She heard the chatter of the girls, which
was inconsequent and absent, as if their minds were
on other things than their conversation. Then sud-
denly she saw a small red gleam far down the street,
evidently that of a cigar, and also a dark, moving
figure. Then there ensued a subdued wrangle in
the yard. Imogen insisted that her sisters should
go into the house. They all resisted, Eliza the most
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