The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: might, and in their vestiges which are still in the land? but of no
avail to them was that which they had earned.
And when there came to them their apostles with manifest signs
they rejoiced in what knowledge they had; but there closed in upon
them that whereat they had mocked.
And when they saw our violence they said, 'We believe in God
alone, and we disbelieve in what we once associated with Him.'
But their faith was of no avail to them when they saw our
violence-the course of God with His servants in time past, and there
the misbelievers lose!
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The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad: The dismay and the scorn of Mr Verloc found vent in an attempt at
levity.
"Perfectly. But what of the Embassies? A series of attacks on the
various Embassies," he began; but he could not withstand the cold,
watchful stare of the First Secretary.
"You can be facetious, I see," the latter observed carelessly.
"That's all right. It may enliven your oratory at socialistic
congresses. But this room is no place for it. It would be
infinitely safer for you to follow carefully what I am saying. As
you are being called upon to furnish facts instead of cock-and-bull
stories, you had better try to make your profit off what I am
The Secret Agent |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Somebody's Little Girl by Martha Young: as little girls do wipe tiny pink hands, on the pink checked towel
held for them by Sister Angela, then Sister Angela hung the pink
checked towel on the lowest limb of the arbor-vita tree. Then the
little girls all ran to sit down in a row on the lowest step of the
back gallery, with their little feet on the gravel below. Sister
Angela walked the length of the row, and gave to each little girl in
the row a sweet tiny cake, or maybe Sister Angela walked twice down
the row and gave to each little girl two cakes, or sometimes maybe
she walked three times down the row, and then each little girl had
three cakes; but no one little girl ever had more than every other
little girl.
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