| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: a nation who shall invite to good, and bid what is reasonable, and
forbid what is wrong; these are the prosperous.
Be not like those who parted in sects and disagreed after there came
to them manifest signs; for them is mighty woe, on the day when
faces shall be whitened and faces shall be blackened. As for those
whose faces are blackened,- 'Did ye misbelieve after your faith,
then taste the torment for your misbelief But as for those whose faces
are whitened, they are in God's mercy, and they shall dwell therein
for aye.
These are the signs of God. We recite them to you in truth, for
God desires not wrong unto the worlds.
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Verses 1889-1896 by Rudyard Kipling: O the oont*, O the oont, O the commissariat oont!
With 'is silly neck a-bobbin' like a basket full o' snakes;
We packs 'im like an idol, an' you ought to 'ear 'im grunt,
An' when we gets 'im loaded up 'is blessed girth-rope breaks.
* Camel: -- ~oo~ is pronounced like ~u~ in "bull", but by Mr. Atkins
to rhyme with "front".
Wot makes the rear-guard swear so 'ard when night is drorin' in,
An' every native follower is shiverin' for 'is skin?
It ain't the chanst o' being rushed by Paythans from the 'ills,
Verses 1889-1896 |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Some Reminiscences by Joseph Conrad: adopted. His experience was for me, too, as though he had been
an ancestor.
Writing my long name (it has twelve letters) with laborious care
on the slip of blue paper, he remarked:
"You are of Polish extraction."
"Born there, sir."
He laid down the pen and leaned back to look at me as it were for
the first time.
"Not many of your nationality in our service, I should think. I
never remember meeting one either before or after I left the sea.
Don't remember ever hearing of one. An inland people, aren't
Some Reminiscences |
