| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Burning Daylight by Jack London: gathered a collection of loved tools. And he, who in the old
days, out of his millions, could purchase immediately whatever he
might desire, learned the new joy of the possession that follows
upon rigid economy and desire long delayed. He waited three
months before daring the extravagance of a Yankee screw-driver,
and his glee in the marvelous little mechanism was so keen that
Dede conceived forthright a great idea. For six months she saved
her egg-money, which was hers by right of allotment, and on his
birthday presented him with a turning-lathe of wonderful
simplicity and multifarious efficiencies. And their mutual
delight in the tool, which was his, was only equalled by their
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: believers; wherefore take example, O ye who are endowed with sight!
Had it not been that God had prescribed for them banishment, He
would have tormented them in this world; but for them in the next
shall be the torment of the Fire! that is because they opposed God and
His Apostle: and whoso opposes God, verily, God is keen to punish!
What palm trees ye did cut down or what ye left standing upon
their roots was by God's permission, and to disgrace the workers of
abomination; and as for the spoils that God gave to His Apostle from
these (people) ye did not press forward after them with horse or
riding camel; but God gives His Apostle authority over whom He
pleases, for God is mighty over all!
The Koran |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Voyage to Abyssinia by Father Lobo: was here in danger of losing my life by a compliment which the
Portuguese paid the prince of a discharge of twelve muskets; one
being unskilfully charged too high, flew out of the soldier's hand,
and falling against my leg, wounded it very much; we had no surgeon
with us, so that all I could do was to bind it hard with some cloth.
I was obliged by this accident to make use of the Chec Furt's horse,
which was the greatest service we received from him in all our
journey.
When we came within two leagues and a half of the King's court, he
sent some messengers with his compliments, and five mules for the
chief of our company. Our road lay through a wood, where we found
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