| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Chinese Boy and Girl by Isaac Taylor Headland: play his own difficult game--or like Haman--to hang on his own
gallows. It recognizes the Chinese golden rule of not doing to
others what you would not have them do to you.
The boys spent a long time playing this game--indeed they seemed
to forget they were playing for us, and we were finally compelled
to call them off.
Chi had turned the marbles over to the others as soon as
he had fairly started it, and stood in that peculiar fashion of
his with one leg wound around the other, and when we
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Coxon Fund by Henry James: brought into his face the noble blank melancholy that sometimes
made it handsome. The title of an unwritten book didn't after all
much matter, but some masterpiece of Saltram's may have died in his
bosom of the shudder with which it was then convulsed. The ideal
solution, failing the fee at Kent Mulville's door, would have been
some system of subscription to projected treatises with their non-
appearance provided for--provided for, I mean, by the indulgence of
subscribers. The author's real misfortune was that subscribers
were so wretchedly literal. When they tastelessly enquired why
publication hadn't ensued I was tempted to ask who in the world had
ever been so published. Nature herself had brought him out in
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: the tribes, and what was given to Moses, and Jesus, and the prophets
from their Lord,- we will make no distinction between any of them,-
and we are unto Him resigned. Whosoever craves other than Islam for
a religion, it shall surely not be accepted from him, and he shall, in
the next world, be of those who lose.'
How shall God guide people who have disbelieved after believing
and bearing witness that the Apostle is true, and after there come
to them manifest signs? God guides the unjust folk.
These, their reward is, that on them is the curse of God, and of the
angels, and of men together; they shall dwell therein for aye- the
torment shall not be alleviated from them, nor shall they be respited;
The Koran |
