| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy: "Whenever there was a waltz figure in the
mazurka, I waltzed with her for a long time, and
breathing fast and smiling, she would say, 'En-
core'; and I went on waltzing and waltzing, as
though unconscious of any bodily existence."
"Come now, how could you be unconscious of
it with your arm round her waist? You must
have been conscious, not only of your own exist-
ence, but of hers," said one of the party.
Ivan Vasilievich cried out, almost shouting in
anger: " There you are, moderns all over! Now-
The Forged Coupon |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mountains by Stewart Edward White: where we got out at every rise in order to ease the
horses, and where we hurried the old gentleman beyond
the limits of his Easterner's caution at every descent.
It grew dark. Dimly the road showed gray in the
twilight. We did not know how far exactly we were
to go, but imagined that sooner or later we would
top one of the small ridges to look across one of the
broad plateau plains to the lights of our station.
You see we had forgotten, in the midst of flatness,
that we were still over five thousand feet up. Then
the road felt its way between two hills;--and the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: Lord endowed with majesty and honour shall endure.
Then which of your Lord's bounties will ye twain deny?
Of Him whosoever is in the heaven and the earth
does beg; every day He is in (some fresh) business!
Then which of your Lord's bounties will ye twain deny?
We shall be at leisure for you, O ye two weighty ones!
Then which of your Lord's bounties will ye twain deny?
O assembly of ginns and mankind! if ye are able to pass
through the confines of heaven and earth
then pass through them!-ye cannot pass through
save by authority!
The Koran |
