| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Aspern Papers by Henry James: She is so easily tired--and yet she has begun to roam--
to drag herself about the house." And she stood looking down
at her immemorial companion with a sort of helpless wonder,
as if all their years of familiarity had not made her perversities,
on occasion, any more easy to follow.
"I know what I'm about. I'm not losing my mind.
I daresay you would like to think so," said Miss Bordereau
with a cynical little sigh.
"I don't suppose you came out here yourself. Miss Tita must have had to lend
you a hand," I interposed with a pacifying intention.
"Oh, she insisted that we should push her; and when she insists!"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: balance Yellow Franz has added since he captured me, so
that it is really ransom money. But my father is a poor man,
so that it will take a long time before he can accumulate
so large a sum.
"You would really like to go home again, Rudolph?"
"Oh, very much, your majesty, if I only dared."
Barney was silent for some time, thinking. Possibly he
could effect his own escape with the connivance of Rudolph,
and at the same time free the boy. The paltry ransom he
could pay out of his own pocket and send to Yellow Franz
later, so that the youth need not fear the brigand's revenge.
The Mad King |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: naught but obvious magic.' They say, 'Why has not an angel been sent
down to him?' but if we had sent down an angel, the affair would
have been decided, and then they would have had no respite.
And had we made him an angel, we should have made him as a man
too; and we would have made perplexing for them that which they deem
perplexing now.
There have been prophets before thee mocked at, but that encompassed
them which the scoffers among them mocked at.
Say, 'Go about in the earth, then wilt thou see how has been the end
of those who called them liars.'
Say, 'Whose is what is in the heavens and the earth?
The Koran |
