| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: tidings for you today.- Gardens beneath which rivers flow, to dwell
therein for aye; that is the grand bliss!'
On the day when the hypocrites, men and women, shall say to those
who believe, 'Wait for us that we may kindle at your light.' It will
be said, 'Get ye back, and beg a light.' And there shall be struck out
between them a wall with a door; within it shall be mercy, and outside
before it torment. They shall cry out to them, 'We were not with you
they shall say, 'Yea, but ye did tempt yourselves, and did wait, and
did doubt; and your vain hopes beguiled you; and the beguiler beguiled
you about God.
'Wherefore to-day there shall not be taken from you a ransom, nor
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Coxon Fund by Henry James: there. She's monstrously clever, you know."
I thought again. "Monstrously!"
CHAPTER VIII
George Gravener didn't follow her, for late in September, after the
House had risen, I met him in a railway-carriage. He was coming up
from Scotland and I had just quitted some relations who lived near
Durham. The current of travel back to London wasn't yet strong; at
any rate on entering the compartment I found he had had it for some
time to himself. We fared in company, and though he had a blue-
book in his lap and the open jaws of his bag threatened me with the
white teeth of confused papers, we inevitably, we even at last
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Odyssey by Homer: As he spoke day began to break, and Menelaus, who had already
risen, leaving Helen in bed, came towards them. When Telemachus
saw him he put on his shirt as fast as he could, threw a great
cloak over his shoulders, and went out to meet him. "Menelaus,"
said he, "let me go back now to my own country, for I want to
get home."
And Menelaus answered, "Telemachus, if you insist on going I
will not detain you. I do not like to see a host either too fond
of his guest or too rude to him. Moderation is best in all
things, and not letting a man go when he wants to do so is as
bad as telling him to go if he would like to stay. One should
The Odyssey |
