| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Country Doctor by Honore de Balzac: consisted of a grating of yellowish spear-shaped bars. These
decorations, which had lost all their color, gradually rose on either
half of the gates till they reached the centre where they met; their
spikes forming, when both leaves were shut, an outline similar to that
of a pine-cone. The worm-eaten gates themselves, with their patches of
velvet lichen, were almost destroyed by the alternate action of sun
and rain. A few aloe plants and some chance-sown pellitory grew on the
tops of the square pillars of the gates, which all but concealed the
stems of a couple of thornless acacias that raised their tufted
spikes, like a pair of green powder-puffs, in the yard.
The condition of the gateway revealed a certain carelessness of its
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: the believers?' But God shall judge between you on the resurrection
day; for God will not give the misbelievers a way against believers.
Verily, the hypocrites seek to deceive God, but He deceives them;
and when they rise up to pray, they rise up lazily to be seen of
men, and do not remember God, except a few; wavering between the
two, neither to these nor yet to those! but whomsoever God doth lead
astray thou shall not find for him a way.
O ye who believe! take not misbelievers for patrons rather than
believers; do ye wish to make for God a power against you?
Verily, the hypocrites are in the lowest depths of hell-fire, and
thou shalt not find for them a help.
The Koran |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy: while she looked like a butterfly, clinging to a blade of grass,
and just about to open its rainbow wings for fresh flight, her
heart ached with a horrible despair.
"But perhaps I am wrong, perhaps it was not so?" And again she
recalled all she had seen.
"Kitty, what is it?" said Countess Nordston, stepping noiselessly
over the carpet towards her. "I don't understand it."
Kitty's lower lip began to quiver; she got up quickly.
"Kitty, you're not dancing the mazurka?"
"No, no," said Kitty in a voice shaking with tears.
"He asked her for the mazurka before me," said Countess Nordston,
Anna Karenina |
