| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: would have taken thee for a friend; and had it not been that we
stablished thee, thou wouldst have well-nigh leant towards them a
little then would we have made thee taste of torment both of life
and death, then thou wouldst not have found against us any helper.
And they well-nigh enticed thee away from the land, to turn thee out
therefrom; but then- they should not have tarried after thee except
a little.
[This is] the course of those of our prophets whom we have sent
before thee; and thou shalt find no change in our course.
Be thou steadfast in prayer from the declining of the sun until
the dusk of the night, and the reading of the dawn; verily, the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London: up and informed us that the body had been discovered, yet warm, in the place
indicated. That evening the papers teemed with glaring Jack-the-Strangler
headlines, denouncing the brutality of the deed and complaining about the
laxity of the police. We were also closeted with the Inspector, who begged us
by all means to keep the affair secret. Success, he said, depended upon
silence.
As you know, John, Mr. Hale was a man of iron. He refused to surrender. But,
oh, John, it was terrible, nay, horrible--this awful something, this blind
force in the dark. We could not fight, could not plan, could do nothing save
hold our hands and wait. And week by week, as certain as the rising of the
sun, came the notification and death of some person, man or woman, innocent of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Man of Business by Honore de Balzac: a buyer. The firm of Maxime and Chocardelle was losing two thousand
francs, it is true, but what was the loss compared with four glorious
thousand-franc notes in hand? 'Four thousand francs of live coin!--
there are moments in one's life when one would sign bills for eight
thousand to get them,' as the Count said to me.
"Two days later the Count must see the furniture himself, and took the
four thousand francs upon him. The sale had been arranged; thanks to
little Croizeau's diligence, he pushed matters on; he had 'come round'
the widow, as he expressed it. It was Maxime's intention to have all
the furniture removed at once to a lodging in a new house in the Rue
Tronchet, taken in the name of Mme. Ida Bonamy; he did not trouble
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