| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Silas Marner by George Eliot: convictions were not clear enough to afford him any forcible
demonstration as to the advantages of interest; and as for security,
he regarded it vaguely as a means of cheating a man by making him
believe that he would be paid. Altogether, the operation on the
miser's mind was a task that Godfrey would be sure to hand over to
his more daring and cunning brother: Dunstan had made up his mind to
that; and by the time he saw the light gleaming through the chinks
of Marner's shutters, the idea of a dialogue with the weaver had
become so familiar to him, that it occurred to him as quite a
natural thing to make the acquaintance forthwith. There might be
several conveniences attending this course: the weaver had possibly
Silas Marner |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton: be. I believed in Darwin, of course. I do still; but then
Darwin himself said that he wasn't sure about the soul--at least,
I think he did--and Wallace was a spiritualist; and then there
was St. George Mivart--"
Her gaze lost itself in the ethereal remoteness of the mountains.
"How beautiful! How satisfying!" she murmured. "Perhaps now I
shall really know what it is to live."
As she spoke she felt a sudden thickening of her heart-beats, and
looking up she was aware that before her stood the Spirit of
Life.
"Have you never really known what it is to live?" the Spirit of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: quicken with a goodly life; and we will recompense them with their
hire for the best deeds they have done.
When thou dost read the Koran ask refuge with God from Satan the
pelted one.
Verily, he has no power over those who believe and who upon their
Lord rely. His power is only over those who take him for a patron, and
over the idolaters.
And whenever we change one verse for another,- God knows best what
He sends down. They say, 'Thou art but a forger!'- Nay, most of them
do not know. Say, 'The Holy Spirit brought it down from thy Lord in
truth, to stablish those who believe, and for a guidance and glad
The Koran |
