| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe: beasts by night.
Once or twice in the daytime I thought I saw the Pico of Teneriffe,
being the high top of the Mountain Teneriffe in the Canaries, and
had a great mind to venture out, in hopes of reaching thither; but
having tried twice, I was forced in again by contrary winds, the
sea also going too high for my little vessel; so, I resolved to
pursue my first design, and keep along the shore.
Several times I was obliged to land for fresh water, after we had
left this place; and once in particular, being early in morning, we
came to an anchor under a little point of land, which was pretty
high; and the tide beginning to flow, we lay still to go farther
Robinson Crusoe |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Adventure by Jack London: guitar and sang liquid, velvety Hawaiian hulas, he sat entranced.
Then she was all woman, and the magic of sex kidnapped the
irritations of the day and made him forget the big revolver, the
Baden-Powell, and all the rest. But what right, the next thought
in his brain would whisper, had such a girl to swagger around like
a man and exult that adventure was not dead? Woman that adventured
were adventuresses, and the connotation was not nice. Besides, he
was not enamoured of adventure. Not since he was a boy had it
appealed to him--though it would have driven him hard to explain
what had brought him from England to the Solomons if it had not
been adventure.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: even though there be poverty amongst them; and whoso is preserved from
his own coveteousness, these are the prosperous!
And those who came after them say, 'Our Lord, forgive us and our
brethren who were beforehand with us in the faith, and place not in
our hearts ill-will towards those who believe-our Lord! verily, thou
art kind, compassionate!'
Dost thou not look on those who were hypocritical, saying to their
brethren who misbelieved amongst the people of the Book, 'If ye be
driven forth we will go forth with you; and we will never obey any one
concerning you; and if ye be fought against we will help you.' But God
bears witness that they are surely liars!
The Koran |
