| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: 'Your God is only God who,-there is no god but He,-He embraceth
everything in His knowledge.'
Thus do we narrate to thee the history of what has gone before,
and we have brought thee a reminder from us.
Whoso turns therefrom, verily, he shall bear on the resurrection day
a burden:-for them to bear for aye, and evil for them on the
resurrection day will it be to bear.
On the day when the trumpet shall be blown, and we will gather the
sinners in that day blue-eyed.
They shall whisper to each other, 'Ye have only tarried ten days.'
We know best what they say, when the most exemplary of them in his way
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells: door about half past eight. I crept up. But I was afraid I
might upset you if I came in."
"But you've not waited--"
"I've had a mouthful of soup." Lady Hardy rang the bell.
"I've done some work at last," said Sir Richmond, astride on
the hearthrug.
"I'm glad," said Lady Hardy, without gladness. "I waited for
three hours."
Lady Hardy was a frail little blue-eyed woman with uneven
shoulders and a delicate sweet profile. Hers was that type of
face that under even the most pleasant and luxurious
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Exiles by Honore de Balzac: "And since that, I tell you, I have never slept quietly in my bed. My
lord, who lodges over us, is of a surety more of a wizard than a
Christian. On my word as an officer, I shiver when that old man passes
near me; he never sleeps of nights; if I wake, his voice is ringing
like a bourdon of bells, and I hear him muttering incantations in the
language of hell. Have you ever seen him eat an honest crust of bread
or a hearth-cake made by a good Catholic baker? His brown skin has
been scorched and tanned by hell-fires. Marry, and I tell you his eyes
hold a spell like that of serpents. Jacqueline, I will have none of
those two men under my roof. I see too much of the law not to know
that it is well to have nothing to do with it.--You must get rid of
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