| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: houses, until ye have asked leave and saluted the people thereof, that
is better for you; haply ye may be mindful. And if ye find no one
therein, then do not enter them until permission is given you, and
if it be said to you, 'Go back!' then go back, it is purer for you;
for God of what ye do doth know. It is no crime against you that ye
enter uninhabited houses,-a convenience for you;-and God knows what ye
show and what ye hide.
Say to the believers that they cast down their looks and guard their
private parts; that is purer for them; verily, God is well aware of
what they do.
And say to the believing women that they cast down their looks and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Island Nights' Entertainments by Robert Louis Stevenson: leave the good lantern to blow up with the graven images. The
thing belonged to me, after all, and was worth money, and might
come in handy. If I could have trusted the match, I might have run
in still and rescued it. But who was going to trust the match?
You know what trade is. The stuff was good enough for Kanakas to
go fishing with, where they've got to look lively anyway, and the
most they risk is only to have their hand blown off. But for
anyone that wanted to fool around a blow-up like mine that match
was rubbish.
Altogether the best I could do was to lie still, see my shot-gun
handy, and wait for the explosion. But it was a solemn kind of a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell: take this gentleman's luggage -- Dover line twelve o'clock train --
that's it," and without waiting for another word Jerry wheeled me round
to make room for other cabs that were dashing up at the last minute,
and drew up on one side till the crush was past.
"`So glad!' he said, `so glad!' Poor young fellow! I wonder what it was
that made him so anxious!"
Jerry often talked to himself quite loud enough for me to hear
when we were not moving.
On Jerry's return to the rank there was a good deal of laughing
and chaffing at him for driving hard to the train for an extra fare,
as they said, all against his principles, and they wanted to know
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