| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Main Street by Sinclair Lewis: "Ya. Ay lak it. Ay t'ink maybe Ay stay here," said Bea.
IV
The recently built house of Sam Clark, in which was given
the party to welcome Carol, was one of the largest in Gopher
Prairie. It had a clean sweep of clapboards, a solid squareness,
a small tower, and a large screened porch. Inside, it was as
shiny, as hard, and as cheerful as a new oak upright piano.
Carol looked imploringly at Sam Clark as he rolled to the
door and shouted, "Welcome, little lady! The keys of the
city are yourn!"
Beyond him, in the hallway and the living-room, sitting in
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: hands. They forget God and He forgets them! Verily, the hypocrites,
they are the doers of abomination!
God has promised unto the hypocrites, men and women, and unto the
misbelievers, hell-fire, to dwell therein for aye; it is enough for
them! God shall curse them, and theirs shall be enduring woe.
Ye are like those who were before you. They were stronger than you
and more abundant in wealth and children; they enjoyed their portion
then, and ye enjoy your portion, as they enjoyed their portion
before you; and ye discuss as they discussed. Their works are vain
in this world and the next, and they it is who lose.
Did there not come to them the declaration of those who were
The Koran |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Rescue by Joseph Conrad: astonishment, respect--and awe. Belarab visited him often.
Sometimes those whom he had known in their prime years ago,
during a struggle for faith and life, would come to talk with the
white man. Their voices were like the echoes of stirring events,
in the pale glamour of a youth gone by. They nodded their old
heads. Do you remember?--they said. He remembered only too well!
He was like a man raised from the dead, for whom the fascinating
trust in the power of life is tainted by the black scepticism of
the grave.
Only at times the invincible belief in the reality of existence
would come back, insidious and inspiring. He squared his
The Rescue |
