| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Stories From the Old Attic by Robert Harris: beach at the other. Or at least they swam very near to the rocky
beach--as near as they dared--for all the older fish constantly
warned them to stay away. Some of the dangers were clear enough,
such as the wading birds who stepped into the shallow water, hoping
to pluck out a little fish and swallow him right down, and the
foxes, whose gigantic teeth were too awful even to think about. But
there were other evils that were not so distinct. Hideous and
unimaginable these were, with tales of fish swimming into the area
and never to be heard from again, vague reports of sudden
disappearances, and some hysterical tales, impossible to make sense
of, of leaping shadows, wild splashings, worms flying through the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Virginian by Owen Wister: case. He's got to deal with Trampas somehow--man to man. Trampas
and him can't stay this way when they get back and go workin'
same as they worked before. No, sir; I've seen his eye twice, and
I know he's goin' to reckon to a finish."
I still must, in Scipio's opinion, have been slow to understand,
when on the afternoon following this talk I invited him to tell
me what sort of "finish" he wanted, after such a finishing as had
been dealt Trampas already. Getting "laughed plumb sick by the
bystanders" (I borrowed his own not overstated expression) seemed
to me a highly final finishing. While I was running my notions
off to him, Scipio rose, and, with the frying-pan he had been
The Virginian |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: Lord;' there cometh forth from her body a draught varying in hue, in
which is a cure for men; verily, in that are signs unto a people who
reflect.
God created you; then He will take you to Himself; but amongst you
are some whom He will thrust into the most decrepit age; so that he
may not know aught that once he knew. Verily, God is knowing,
powerful.
And God has preferred some of you over others in providing for
you; but those who have been preferred will not restore their
provision to those whom their right hands possess that they may
share equally therein:- is it God's favours they gainsay?
The Koran |
