| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: the path; from it some turn aside: but had He pleased He would have
guided you one and all.
He it is who sends down water from the sky, whence ye have drink,
and whence the trees grow whereby ye feed your flocks.
He makes the corn to grow, and the olives, and the palms, and the
grapes, and some of every fruit;- verily, in that is a sign unto a
people who reflect.
And He subjected to you the night and the day, and the sun, and
the moon, and the stars are subjected to His bidding. Verily, in
that are signs to a people who have sense.
And what He has produced for you in the earth varying in hue,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Amazing Interlude by Mary Roberts Rinehart: there, writing home and telling them, 'To-day we served soup to this
man, and that man, perhaps wounded.' And - and that sort of thing -
don't you see how interested every one will be? Mrs. Gregory has
promised twenty-five dollars a month, and - "
"You're not going," said Harvey in a flat tone. "That's all. Don't
talk to me about it."
Sara Lee flushed deeper and started again, but rather hopelessly.
There was no converting a man who would not argue or reason, who based
everything on flat refusal.
"But somebody must go," she said with a tightening of her voice.
"Here's Mabel Andrews' letter. Read it and you will understand."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay: "I give you all other men," said Sullenbode. "Maskull is mine."
"No. I am not here to help Maskull to a lover but to remind him of
the existence of nobler things."
"You are a good man. But you two alone will never strike the road to
Adage."
"Are you acquainted with it?"
Again the woman gripped Maskull's arm. "What is love - which Corpang
despises?"
Maskull looked at her attentively. Sullenbode went on, "Love is that
which is perfectly willing to disappear and become nothing, for the
sake of the beloved."
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