| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott: "Yes, I think she would," returned Laurie gravely.
"Don't you like me so?' asked Meg.
"No, I don't," was the blunt reply.
"Why not?" in an anxious tone.
He glanced at her frizzled head, bare shoulders, and fantastically
trimmed dress with an expression that abashed her more than
his answer, which had not particle of his usual politeness in it.
"I don't like fuss and feathers."
That was altogether too much from a lad younger than herself,
and Meg walked away, saying petulantly, "You are the rudest boy I
ever saw."
Little Women |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: truth?' say, 'For you is the appointment of a day of which ye shall
not keep back an hour, nor shall ye bring it on!'
And those who misbelieve say, 'We will never believe in this Koran
or in what is before it;' but couldst thou see when the unjust are set
before their Lord, they shall rebut each other in speech.
Those who were thought weak shall say to those who were big with
pride, 'Had it not been for you we should have been believers.'
Those who were big with pride shall say to those who were thought
weak, 'Was it we who turned you away from the guidance after it came
to you? nay, ye were sinners.'
And those who were thought weak shall say to those who were big with
The Koran |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: passions. He caught up a sword, pierced the heart of his
friend's antagonist, was tried, and his life, with difficulty,
redeemed from justice at the expense of a year's close
imprisonment, the punishment of manslaughter. The incident
affected him most deeply, the more that the deceased was a man of
excellent character, and had sustained gross insult and injury
ere he drew his sword. I think, from that moment, I observed--I
beg pardon--The fits of morbid sensibility which had tormented
this unfortunate gentleman, were rendered henceforth more acute
by remorse, which he, of all men, was least capable of having
incurred, or of sustaining when it became his unhappy lot. His
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