| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from O Pioneers! by Willa Cather: there after sundown, against the prohibition of
her sons. Carl came quietly and slowly up the
garden path, looking intently at Alexandra.
She did not hear him. She was standing per-
fectly still, with that serious ease so character-
istic of her. Her thick, reddish braids, twisted
about her head, fairly burned in the sunlight.
The air was cool enough to make the warm sun
pleasant on one's back and shoulders, and so
clear that the eye could follow a hawk up and
up, into the blazing blue depths of the sky.
O Pioneers! |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from An Episode Under the Terror by Honore de Balzac: possibly at the same time, the Revolution found expression in the
stranger, for the remorse in his face was so great that it was
impossible not to think that he was fulfilling the vows of a boundless
repentance.
When the priest came to the Latin words, Introibo ad altare Dei, a
sudden divine inspiration flashed upon him; he looked at the three
kneeling figures, the representatives of Christian France, and said
instead, as though to blot out the poverty of the garret, "We are
about to enter the Sanctuary of God!"
These words, uttered with thrilling earnestness, struck reverent awe
into the nuns and the stranger. Under the vaulted roof of St. Peter's
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: Or do they say, 'He has forged it?' Say, 'If I have forged ye cannot
obtain for me aught from God; He knows best what ye utter concerning
it; He is witness enough between me and you, and He is the
forgiving, the merciful.'
Say, 'I am not an innovator among the apostles; nor do I know what
will be done with me or with you if I follow aught but what I am
inspired with; nor am I aught but a plain warner.'
Say, 'Have ye considered, if it is from God and ye have
disbelieved therein, and a witness from the children of Israel
testifies to the conformity of it, and he believes while ye are too
big with pride? Verily, God guides not the unjust people.'
The Koran |
