| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: parables for you: but they plotted their stratagems, but with God is a
stratagem for them, although at their stratagem the mountains should
give way.
Think then not indeed that God fails in his promise to his
apostles;- verily, God is mighty, the Lord of vengeance; on the day
when the earth shall be changed for another earth, and the heavens
too; and (all) shall go forth unto God, the one, the dominant.
Thou shalt see the sinners on that day bound together in fetters;
with shirts of pitch, and fire covering their faces;- that God may
reward each soul according to what it has earned verily, God is
swift at reckoning up!
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie: I yawned again.
Probably, I thought, it really never happened. Of course, it was
all a bad dream. The truth of the matter was that it was
Lawrence who had murdered Alfred Inglethorp with a croquet
mallet. But it was absurd of John to make such a fuss about it,
and to go shouting out: "I tell you I won't have it!"
I woke up with a start.
At once I realized that I was in a very awkward predicament.
For, about twelve feet away from me, John and Mary Cavendish were
standing facing each other, and they were evidently quarrelling.
And, quite as evidently, they were unaware of my vicinity, for
The Mysterious Affair at Styles |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Falk by Joseph Conrad: literal truth. The girl was of the sort one necessa-
rily casts eyes at in a sense. She made no noise,
but she filled most satisfactorily a good bit of space.
"But you, captain, are not the same kind of
man," observed Hermann.
I was not, I am happy to say, in a position to
deny this. "What about the lady?" I could not
help asking. At this he gazed for a time into my
face, earnestly, and made as if to change the sub-
ject. I heard him beginning to mutter something
unexpected, about his children growing old enough
Falk |
