| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Twelve Stories and a Dream by H. G. Wells: was tempted, by the possibility of a small increase in his immediate
income, to abandon it in order to become one of the nine-pence-an-hour
computers employed by a well-known Professor in his vicarious
conduct of those extensive researches of his in solar physics--researches
which are still a matter of perplexity to astronomers. Afterwards,
for the space of seven years, save for the pass lists of the
London University, in which he is seen to climb slowly to a double
first class B.Sc., in mathematics and chemistry, there is no evidence
of how Filmer passed his life. No one knows how or where he lived,
though it seems highly probable that he continued to support
himself by teaching while he prosecuted the studies necessary for
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Touchstone by Edith Wharton: Her silence exasperated him.
"Well?" he burst out. "Is that all you have to say?"
"Do you wish me to explain?" she asked, proudly.
"Do you imply I haven't the right to?"
"I imply nothing. I will tell you whatever you wish to know. I
went for a walk with Mr. Flamel because he asked me to."
"I didn't suppose you went uninvited. But there are certain
things a sensible woman doesn't do. She doesn't slink about in
out-of-the-way streets with men. Why couldn't you have seen him
here?"
She hesitated. "Because he wanted to see me alone."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: plotted a plot, but they did not perceive. Behold, how was the end
of their plot, that we destroyed them and their people all together!
Thus are their houses overturned, for that they were unjust; verily,
in that is a sign to people who do know!
But we saved those who believed and who did fear.
And Lot when he said to his people, 'Do ye approach an abominable
sin while ye can see? do ye indeed approach men lustfully rather
than women? nay! ye are a people who are ignorant.' But the answer
of his people was only to say, 'Drive out Lot's family from your city!
verily, they are a folk who would keep pure.'
But we saved him and his family except his wife, her we destined
The Koran |
