| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy: "I? Why should I go?" Kitty said, flushing all over, and she
glanced round at her husband. "Do you know Anna Arkadyevna,
then?" Veslovsky asked her. "She's a very fascinating woman."
"Yes," she answered Veslovsky, crimsoning still more. She got up
and walked across to her husband.
"Are you going shooting, then, to-morrow?" she said.
His jealousy had in these few moments, especially at the flush
that had overspread her cheeks while she was talking to
Veslovsky, gone far indeed. Now as he heard her words, he
construed them in his own fashion. Strange as it was to him
afterwards to recall it, it seemed to him at the moment clear
Anna Karenina |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: coming; then do thou pardon with a fair pardon,
Verily, thy Lord He is the creator, the knowing! We have already
brought thee Seven of the Repetition, and the mighty Koran.
Let not thine eyes strain after what we have allowed a few pairs
of them to enjoy, nor grieve for them; but lower thy wing to the
believers, and say, 'Verily, I am an obvious warner.'
As we sent down (punishment) on the separatists who dismember the
Koran.
But, by thy Lord! we will question them, one and all, about what
they have done.
Therefore, publish what thou art bidden, and turn aside from the
The Koran |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Arrow of Gold by Joseph Conrad: his cousin's movements.
"A grand seigneur combined with a great connoisseur," opined the
other heavily. His mouth had gone slack and he looked a perfect
and grotesque imbecile under his wig-like crop of white hair.
Positively I thought he would begin to slobber. But he attacked
Blunt next.
"Are you on your way down, too? A little flutter. . . It seems to
me you haven't been seen in your usual Paris haunts of late. Where
have you been all this time?"
"Don't you know where I have been?" said Mr. Blunt with great
precision.
The Arrow of Gold |
