| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Exiles by Honore de Balzac: annoyed him so much as to feel himself useless. He flung down his
halbert in a rage, muttered inarticulate words as he pulled off his
doublet, half red and half blue, and slipped on a shabby camlet
jerkin. After helping himself from the bread-box to a hunch of bread,
and spreading it with butter, he seated himself on a bench, looked
round at his four whitewashed walls, counted the beams of the ceiling,
made a mental inventory of the household goods hanging from the nails,
scowled at the neatness which left him nothing to complain of, and
looked at his wife, who said not a word as she ironed the albs and
surplices from the sacristy.
"By my halidom," he said, to open the conversation, "I cannot think,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Whirligigs by O. Henry: line of the Yalu. They did so now; and in words of fire
Ames translated Calloway's brief message into a front
page masterpiece that set the world talking. He told of
the secret councils of the Japanese officers; gave Kuroki's
flaming speeches in full; counted the cavalry and infantry
to a man and a horse; described the quick and silent
building, of the bridge at Stuikauchen, across which the
Mikado's legions were hurled upon the surprised Zas-
sulitch, whose troops were widely scattered along the river.
And the battle! -- well, you know what Ames can do
with a battle if you give him just one smell of smoke for
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: we gave his family, and the like of them with them, as a mercy from
us, and a remembrance to those who serve us.
And Ishmael, and Idris, and DHU 'l Kifl, all of these were of the
patient: and we made them enter into our mercy; verily, they were
among the righteous.
And DHU 'nnun, when he went away in wrath and thought that we had no
power over him; and he cried out in the darkness, 'There is no god but
Thou, celebrated be Thy praise! Verily, I was of the evildoers!' And
we answered him, and saved him from the trouble. Thus do we save
believers!
And Zachariah, when he cried unto his Lord, 'O Lord! leave me not
The Koran |
