| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: And those who misbelieve say, 'This is nothing but a lie which he
has forged, and another people hath helped him at it;' but they have
wrought an injustice and a falsehood.
And they say, 'Old folks' tales, which he has got written down while
they are dictated to him morning and evening.'
Say, 'He sent it down who knows the secret in the heavens and the
earth; verily, He is ever forgiving, merciful!'
And they say, 'What ails this prophet that he eats food and walks in
the markets?- unless there be sent down to him an angel and be a
warner with him.... Or there be thrown to him a treasury, or he have a
garden to eat therefrom....!' and the unjust say, 'Ye only follow an
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Village Rector by Honore de Balzac: for acquittal, giving a reason which some of them adopted; a reason
suggested by his wife:--
"If we do not condemn this man to death, but allow him to live, the
des Vanneaulx will in the end recover their property."
This weighty argument made a division of the jury, into five for
condemnation against seven for acquittal, which necessitated an appeal
to the court; but the judge sided with the minority. According to the
legal system of that day this action led to a verdict of guilty. When
sentence was passed upon him Tascheron flew into a fury which was
natural enough in a man full of life and strength, but which the court
and jury and lawyers and spectators had rarely witnessed in persons
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Time Machine by H. G. Wells: trees. Some were bathing in exactly the place where I had saved
Weena, and that suddenly gave me a keen stab of pain. And like
blots upon the landscape rose the cupolas above the ways to the
Under-world. I understood now what all the beauty of the Over-
world people covered. Very pleasant was their day, as pleasant
as the day of the cattle in the field. Like the cattle, they
knew of no enemies and provided against no needs. And their end
was the same.
`I grieved to think how brief the dream of the human intellect
had been. It had committed suicide. It had set itself
steadfastly towards comfort and ease, a balanced society with
The Time Machine |
