| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: for leave to sally forth; say, 'Ye shall by no means ever sally
forth with me, nor shall ye ever fight a foe with me! verily, ye
were content to sit at home the first time, sit ye then now with those
who stay behind.'
Pray not for any one of them who dies, and stand not by his tomb;
verily, they disbelieved in God and His Apostle and died workers of
abomination!
Let not their wealth and their children please you, God only
wishes to torment them therewith in this world, and that their souls
may pass away the while they misbelieve.
Whenever a surah is sent down to them, 'Believe ye in God, and fight
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from In a German Pension by Katherine Mansfield: clothes.
At the head of the centre table sat the bride and bridegroom, she in a
white dress trimmed with stripes and bows of coloured ribbon, giving her
the appearance of an iced cake all ready to be cut and served in neat
little pieces to the bridegroom beside her, who wore a suit of white
clothes much too large for him and a white silk tie that rose halfway up
his collar. Grouped about them, with a fine regard for dignity and
precedence, sat their parents and relations; and perched on a stool at the
bride's right hand a little girl in a crumpled muslin dress with a wreath
of forget-me-nots hanging over one ear. Everybody was laughing and
talking, shaking hands, clinking glasses, stamping on the floor--a stench
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: no way to measure time, I saw what I took for the
opening to a bay or the mouth of a great river a short
distance ahead of us. I wished that we might make
for it; but with the menace of Hooja close behind and
the screaming natives who raced along the shore paral-
lel to us, I dared not attempt it.
We were not far from shore in that mad flight from
death. Even as I paddled I found opportunity to glance
occasionally toward the natives. They were white, but
hideously painted. From their gestures and weapons
I took them to be a most ferocious race. I was rather
Pellucidar |
