| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Another Study of Woman by Honore de Balzac: a streak of cruelty in a character which seemed so phlegmatic and
indolent.
"As you may suppose the conversation was not very sparkling when I
went in. My weary comrades ate in silence; of course, they asked me
some questions, and we related our misadventures, mingled with
reflections on the campaign, the generals, their mistakes, the
Russians, and the cold. A minute after my arrival the colonel, having
finished his meagre meal, wiped his moustache, bid us good-night, shot
a black look at the Italian woman, saying, 'Rosina?' and then, without
waiting for a reply, went into the little barn full of hay, to bed.
The meaning of the Colonel's utterance was self-evident. The young
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: astray, but they only lead themselves astray, and they do not
perceive.
O people of the Book! why do ye disbelieve in the signs of God,
the while ye witness them? O people of the Book! why do ye clothe
the truth with falsehood and hide the truth the while ye know? A
sect of the people of the Book say, 'Believe in what was revealed to
those who believed at the first appearance of the day, and
disbelieve it at the end thereof,'- that (others) may perchance go
back (from their faith)- 'do not believe save one who followeth your
religion.'
Say, 'Verily, the (true) guidance is the guidance of God, that one
The Koran |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: JOS 21:15 And Holon with her suburbs, and Debir with her suburbs,
JOS 21:16 And Ain with her suburbs, and Juttah with her suburbs, and
Bethshemesh with her suburbs; nine cities out of those two tribes.
JOS 21:17 And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with her suburbs,
Geba with her suburbs,
JOS 21:18 Anathoth with her suburbs, and Almon with her suburbs; four
cities.
JOS 21:19 All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were
thirteen cities with their suburbs.
JOS 21:20 And the families of the children of Kohath, the Levites which
remained of the children of Kohath, even they had the cities of their
King James Bible |
