| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: them.' They have no knowledge of that, they only conjecture.
Have we given them a book before it to which they might hold?
Nay; they say, 'We found our fathers (agreed) upon a religion,
and, verily, we are guided by their traces.'
Thus, too, did we never send before thee to a city any warner, but
the affluent ones thereof said, 'Verily, we found our fathers (agreed)
upon a religion, and, verily, we are led by their traces.'
Say, 'What! if I come to you with what is a better guide than what
ye found your fathers agreed upon?' and they will say, 'Verily, we
in what ye are sent with disbelieve!'
Then we took vengeance on them, and see how was the end of those who
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas: Barneveldt, whom I saw executed when I was a child. Ah! so
Grotius; and that's the chamber from which he escaped. Well,
I'll answer for it that no one shall escape after him in my
time."
And thus opening the door, he began in the dark to talk to
the prisoner.
The dog, on his part, went up to the prisoner, and,
growling, smelled about his legs just as though to ask him
what right he had still to be alive, after having left the
prison in the company of the Recorder and the executioner.
But the fair Rosa called him to her side.
The Black Tulip |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: distance far above the level of my eyes.
How strange it looked! How vastly different from
the flat and puny area of the circumscribed vision of
the dweller upon the outer crust!
I was lost. Though I wandered ceaselessly throughout
a lifetime, I might never discover the whereabouts of
my former friends of this strange and savage world.
Never again might I see dear old Perry, nor Ghak the
Hairy One, nor Dacor the Strong One, nor that other
infinitely precious one--my sweet and noble mate,
Dian the Beautiful!
Pellucidar |
