| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells: for it and got over the railway embankment.
Since then he had been skulking along towards Maybury,
in the hope of getting out of danger Londonward. People
were hiding in trenches and cellars, and many of the survivors
had made off towards Woking village and Send. He had been
consumed with thirst until he found one of the water mains
near the railway arch smashed, and the water bubbling out
like a spring upon the road.
That was the story I got from him, bit by bit. He grew
calmer telling me and trying to make me see the things he
had seen. He had eaten no food since midday, he told me
War of the Worlds |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Extracts From Adam's Diary by Mark Twain: thing.
Next Day
I have been comparing the new one with the old one, and it is
perfectly plain that they are the same breed. I was going to stuff
one of them for my collection, but she is prejudiced against it
for some reason or other; so I have relinquished the idea, though
I think it is a mistake. It would be an irreparable loss to science
if they should get away. The old one is tamer than it was, and
can laugh and talk like the parrot, having learned this, no doubt,
from being with the parrot so much, and having the imitative faculty
in a highly developed degree. I shall be astonished if it turns
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: shall ye be gathered.
There is among men one whose speech about the life of this world
pleases thee, and he calls on God to witness what is in his heart; yet
is he most fierce in opposition unto thee. And when he turns away,
he strives upon the earth to do evil therein, and to destroy the tilth
and the stock; verily, God loves not evil doing. And when it is said
to him, 'Fear God,' then pride takes hold upon him in sin; but hell is
enough for him! surely an evil couch is that.
And there is among men one who selleth his soul craving, those
things that are pleasing unto God and God is kind unto His servants.
O ye who believe! enter ye into the peace, one and all, and follow
The Koran |
