| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis: with it--"
"What DID you? What DID you? WHAT DID YOU?"
cries out Miss Lucy, pressing her hand to her chest,
like she was smothering.
"The first thing I did," says Colonel Tom, "was
to get you to another house--you remember,
Lucy?"
"Yes, yes!" she says, excited, "and what then?"
"Perhaps I did a very foolish thing," says Colonel
Tom.
"After I had seen you installed in the new place
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Melmoth Reconciled by Honore de Balzac: to the tip of his nose, "never mind, handsomest of seals that you are.
I will go to the theatre with you this evening? But all in good time;
let us have dinner! There is a nice little dinner for you--just what
you like."
"It is very hard to part from such a woman as you!" exclaimed
Castanier.
"Very well then, why do you go?" asked she.
"Ah! why? why? If I were to begin to begin to explain the reasons why,
I must tell you things that would prove to you that I love you almost
to madness. Ah! if you have sacrificed your honor for me, I have sold
mine for you; we are quits. Is that love?"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: forgiving, the merciful.'
Say, 'I am not an innovator among the apostles; nor do I know what
will be done with me or with you if I follow aught but what I am
inspired with; nor am I aught but a plain warner.'
Say, 'Have ye considered, if it is from God and ye have
disbelieved therein, and a witness from the children of Israel
testifies to the conformity of it, and he believes while ye are too
big with pride? Verily, God guides not the unjust people.'
And those who misbelieve say of those. who believe, 'If it had
been good, they would not have been beforehand with us therein;' and
when they are not guided thereby, then will they say, 'This is an
The Koran |
