| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Buttered Side Down by Edna Ferber: said, "how do you like our little settlement by the lake, huh?"
"These shoes aren't worth two-fifty," said Louie, indignation
in his voice.
"Well, sure," replied Sophy. "I know it. What do you think
this is? A charity bazaar?"
"But back home----" began Louie, hotly.
"Ferget it, kid," said Sophy. "This is a big town, but it
ain't got no room for back-homers. Don't sour on one job till
you've got another nailed. You'll find yourself cuddling down on
a park bench if you do. Say, are you honestly from Oskaloosa?"
"I certainly am," answered Louie, with pride.
Buttered Side Down |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Glaucus/The Wonders of the Shore by Charles Kingsley: provided for, you will set three or four live shells to do it for
you, and to keep your sub-aqueous lawn close mown.
That last word is no figure of speech. Look among the beds of sea-
weed for a few of the bright yellow or green sea-snails (Nerita),
or Conical Tops (Trochus), especially that beautiful pink one
spotted with brown (Ziziphinus), which you are sure to find about
shaded rock-ledges at dead low tide, and put them into your
aquarium. For the present, they will only nibble the green ulvae;
but when the film of young weed begins to form, you will see it
mown off every morning as fast as it grows, in little semicircular
sweeps, just as if a fairy's scythe had been at work during the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: therefrom; but then- they should not have tarried after thee except
a little.
[This is] the course of those of our prophets whom we have sent
before thee; and thou shalt find no change in our course.
Be thou steadfast in prayer from the declining of the sun until
the dusk of the night, and the reading of the dawn; verily, the
reading of the dawn is ever testified to.
And for the night, watch thou therein as an extra service. It may be
that thy Lord will raise thee to a laudable station.
And say, 'O my Lord! make me enter with a just entry; and make me
come forth with a just coming forth; and grant me from Thee
The Koran |
