| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: they see the torment; and it shall be decided between them with
justice, nor shall they be wronged.
Is not indeed what is in the heavens and what is in the earth God's?
is not indeed the promise of God true? Though most of them know not.
He quickens and He kills, and unto Him are ye returned!
O ye folk! there has come to you a warning from your Lord, and a
balm for what is in your breasts, and a guidance and a mercy to
believers.
Say, 'By the grace of God and by His mercy,- and in that let them
rejoice! It is better than that which they collect!'
Let us see now what God has sent down to you of provision! and yet
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Prufrock/Other Observations by T. S. Eliot: Who had always been so careful while her mistress lived.
Cousin Nancy
Miss Nancy Ellicot
Strode across the hills and broke them
Rode across the hills and broke them--
The barren New England hills
Riding to hounds
Over the cow-pasture.
Miss Nancy Ellicott smoked
And danced all the modern dances;
And her aunts were not quite sure how they felt about it,
Prufrock/Other Observations |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe: new, and perhaps which had never cured an ague before; neither can
I recommend it to any to practise, by this experiment: and though
it did carry off the fit, yet it rather contributed to weakening
me; for I had frequent convulsions in my nerves and limbs for some
time. I learned from it also this, in particular, that being
abroad in the rainy season was the most pernicious thing to my
health that could be, especially in those rains which came attended
with storms and hurricanes of wind; for as the rain which came in
the dry season was almost always accompanied with such storms, so I
found that rain was much more dangerous than the rain which fell in
September and October.
Robinson Crusoe |
