| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield: they saw the same old boxes produced again.
And Paddy had said, "I had red ribbing on mine bee-fore!"
And Johnny had said, "It's always pink on mine. I hate pink."
But what was William to do? The affair wasn't so easily settled. In the
old days, of course, he would have taken a taxi off to a decent toyshop and
chosen them something in five minutes. But nowadays they had Russian toys,
French toys, Serbian toys--toys from God knows where. It was over a year
since Isabel had scrapped the old donkeys and engines and so on because
they were so "dreadfully sentimental" and "so appallingly bad for the
babies' sense of form."
"It's so important," the new Isabel had explained, "that they should like
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London: certainly Freda had behaved very ladylike, held her own with Mrs.
Eppingwell besides. Never gave the girl credit for the grit. He
looked lingeringly over her, coming back now and again to the
eyes, behind the deep earnestness of which he could not guess lay
concealed a deeper sneer. And, Jove, wasn't she well put up!
Wonder why she looked at him so? Did she want to marry him, too?
Like as not; but she wasn't the only one. Her looks were in her
favor, weren't they? And young--younger than Loraine Lisznayi.
She couldn't be more than twenty-three or four, twenty-five at
most. And she'd never get stout. Anybody could guess that the
first time. He couldn't say it of Loraine, though. SHE certainly
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: God is mighty over all.'
And when Abraham said, 'Lord, show me how thou wilt revive the
dead,' He said, 'What, dost thou not yet believe?' Said he, 'Yea,
but that my heart may be quieted.' He said, 'Then take four birds, and
take them close to thyself; then put a part of them on every mountain;
then call them, and they will come to thee in haste; and know that God
is mighty, wise.'
The likeness of those who expend their wealth in God's way is as the
likeness of a grain that grows to seven ears, in every ear a hundred
grains, for God will double unto whom He pleases; for God both
embraces and knows.
The Koran |
