| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne: immensity of space whirled and wavered, fluctuating beneath my eyes.
But I was compelled to rise, to stand up, to look. My first lesson in
dizziness lasted an hour. When I got permission to come down and feel
the solid street pavements I was afflicted with severe lumbago.
"To-morrow we will do it again," said the Professor.
And it was so; for five days in succession, I was obliged to undergo
this anti-vertiginous exercise; and whether I would or not, I made
some improvement in the art of "lofty contemplations."
CHAPTER IX.
ICELAND! BUT WHAT NEXT?
The day for our departure arrived. The day before it our kind friend
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: verily, there shall befall her what befalls them. Verily, their
appointment is for the morning! and is not the morning nigh?'
And when our bidding came, we made their high parts their low parts.
And we rained down upon them stones and baked clay one after
another, marked, from thy Lord, and these are not so far from the
unjust!
And unto Midian (we sent) their brother Sho'haib. He said, 'O my
people! serve God; ye have no god but Him, and give not short
measure and weight. Verily, 'I see you well off; but, verily, I fear
for you the torments of an encompassing day. O my people! give measure
and weight fairly, and defraud not men of their things; and wreak
The Koran |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Dust by Mr. And Mrs. Haldeman-Julius: and eager and full of silly sentiment like Rose. Why didn't she
hold her own as Nellie did? Have more snap and stamina? It was
exasperating--the way she frequently made him feel as if he
actually were trampling on something defenseless.
He now frankly hated her. There was not dislike merely; there was
acute antipathy. He took a delight in having her work harder and
harder. It used to be "Rose," but now it was always "say" or
"you" or "hey." Once she asked cynically if he had ever heard of
a "Rose of Sharon" to which he maliciously replied: "She turned
out to be a Rag-weed."
Yet such a leveller of emotions and an adjuster of disparate
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