| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: thy family we would stone thee, nor couldst thou be powerful over us.'
He said, 'O my people! are my family more esteemed by you than
God? or have you taken Him as something to cast behind your backs?
Verily, my Lord, whate'er ye do, doth comprehend. O my people! act
according to your power; verily, I too will act, and ye at length
shall know! To whomsoever torment comes it shall disgrace him, and him
who is a liar. Watch then; verily, I with you am watching too!'
And when our bidding came we saved Sho'haib, and those who
believed with him, by our mercy; and the noise caught those who had
done wrong, and on the morrow they were in their houses prone, as
though they had not dwelt therein. Aye! 'Away with Midian!' as it was,
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells: at the expense of the rest of the body. Without the body the
brain would, of course, become a mere selfish intelligence,
without any of the emotional substratum of the human being.
The last salient point in which the systems of these
creatures differed from ours was in what one might have
thought a very trivial particular. Micro-organisms, which
cause so much disease and pain on earth, have either never
appeared upon Mars or Martian sanitary science eliminated
them ages ago. A hundred diseases, all the fevers and con-
tagions of human life, consumption, cancers, tumours and
such morbidities, never enter the scheme of their life. And
War of the Worlds |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Girl with the Golden Eyes by Honore de Balzac: the young man, and retired without letting his face show that he had
formed any opinion, good or bad, with regard to Paquita.
"That is a man," said De Marsay, pointing to the mulatto, with a
sombre gesture. "There is no devotion like the devotion which obeys in
friendship, and does not stop to weigh motives. In that man you
possess a true friend."
"I will give him you, if you like," she answered; "he will serve you
with the same devotion that he has for me, if I so instruct him."
She waited for a word of recognition, and went on with an accent
replete with tenderness:
"Adolphe, give me then one kind word! . . . It is nearly day."
The Girl with the Golden Eyes |
