| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: make a distinction between God and His apostles, and say, 'We
believe in part and disbelieve in part, and desire to take a midway
course between the two:' these are the misbelievers, and we have
prepared for misbelievers shameful woe! But those who believe in God
and His apostles, and who do not make a distinction between any one of
them,- to these we will give their hire, for God is forgiving and
merciful!
The people of the Book will ask thee to bring down for them a book
from heaven; but they asked Moses a greater thing than that, for
they said, 'Show us God openly;' but the thunderbolt caught them in
their injustice. Then they took the calf, after what had come to
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo: with all frankness.
Every day, she looked forward to the hour for their walk with impatience,
she found Marius there, she felt herself unspeakably happy,
and thought in all sincerity that she was expressing her whole
thought when she said to Jean Valjean:--
"What a delicious garden that Luxembourg is!"
Marius and Cosette were in the dark as to one another. They did
not address each other, they did not salute each other, they did
not know each other; they saw each other; and like stars of heaven
which are separated by millions of leagues, they lived by gazing
at each other.
Les Miserables |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Maid Marian by Thomas Love Peacock: in the nick of time, and now I care not how long they tarry.
Ho! honest friend, are you come to play at the wedding?"
"I am come to play anywhere," answered Robin, "where I can get a cup of sack;
for which I will sing the praise of the donor in lofty verse, and emblazon
him with any virtue which he may wish to have the credit of possessing,
without the trouble of practising.
"A most courtly harper," said the bishop; "I will fill thee with sack;
I will make thee a walking butt of sack, if thou wilt delight my ears
with thy melodies."
"That will I," said Robin; "in what branch of my art shall I exert
my faculty? I am passing well in all, from the anthem to the glee,
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