| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: and the thunderbolt caught you while ye yet looked on. Then we
raised you up after your death; perhaps ye may be grateful. And we
overshadowed you with the cloud, and sent down the manna and the
quails; 'Eat of the good things we have given you.' They not wrong us,
but it was themselves they were wronging. And when we said, 'Enter
this city and eat therefrom as plentifully as ye wish; and enter the
gate worshipping and say 'hittatun. So will we pardon you your sins
and give increase unto those who do well.'
But those who did wrong changed it for another word than that
which was said to them: and we sent down upon those who did wrong,
wrath from heaven for that they had so sinned.
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy: self. Never did a fragile tailless sentence convey a
more perfect meaning. The careless sergeant smiled
within himself, and probably too the devil smiled from
a loop-hole in Tophet, for the moment was the turning-
point of a career. Her tone and mien signified beyond
mistake that the seed which was to lift the foundation
had taken root in the chink: the remainder was a mere
question of time and natural changes.
"There the truth comes out!" said the soldier, in
reply. "Never tell me that a young lady can live in a
buzz of admiration without knowing something about it.
Far From the Madding Crowd |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Love and Friendship by Jane Austen: Philippa received us both with every expression of affectionate
Love. My arrival was indeed a most agreable surprise to her as
she had not only been totally ignorant of my Marriage with her
Nephew, but had never even had the slightest idea of there being
such a person in the World.
Augusta, the sister of Edward was on a visit to her when we
arrived. I found her exactly what her Brother had described her
to be--of the middle size. She received me with equal surprise
though not with equal Cordiality, as Philippa. There was a
disagreable coldness and Forbidding Reserve in her reception of
me which was equally distressing and Unexpected. None of that
Love and Friendship |
