| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Copy-Cat & Other Stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: day. Margaret began folding gowns with alacrity.
She was as conservative as her mistress and she
severely disapproved of many things. However, the
matter of the amethyst comb was uppermost in her
mind. She was wild with curiosity. She hardly
dared inquire, but finally she did.
"About the amethyst comb, ma'am?" she said,
with a delicate cough.
"What about it, Margaret?" returned Jane,
severely.
"I thought perhaps Mrs. Longstreet had told you
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Time Machine by H. G. Wells: Machine was left deserted on the turf among the rhododendrons.
`The arch of the doorway was richly carved, but naturally I
did not observe the carving very narrowly, though I fancied I saw
suggestions of old Phoenician decorations as I passed through,
and it struck me that they were very badly broken and weather-
worn. Several more brightly clad people met me in the doorway,
and so we entered, I, dressed in dingy nineteenth-century
garments, looking grotesque enough, garlanded with flowers, and
surrounded by an eddying mass of bright, soft-colored robes and
shining white limbs, in a melodious whirl of laughter and
laughing speech.
The Time Machine |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: righteous.'
He said, 'My Lord, how can there be to me a boy when old age has
reached me, and my wife is barren?' Said he, 'Thus God does what He
pleaseth.' He said, 'My Lord, make for me a sign.' He said, 'Thy
sign is that thou shalt not speak to men for three days, save by
gesture; but remember thy Lord much, and celebrate His praises in
the evening and the morning.'
And when the angels said, 'O Mary! verily, God has chosen thee,
and has purified thee, and has chosen thee above the women of the
world. O Mary! be devout unto thy Lord, and adore and bow down with
those who bow. That is (one) of the declarations of the unseen world
The Koran |
