| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: chiefs! Explain to me my vision, if a vision ye can expound!'
Said they, 'Confused dreams, and naught of the exposition of such
dreams know we!'
Then he who had escaped of those twain said,- remembering after a
while,- 'Verily, I will inform you of the interpretation thereof, so
send me.'
'Joseph! O thou truth teller! explain to us the seven fat kine which
seven lean devoured; and the seven green ears of corn and others
dry. Haply I may go back to the men, haply they then may know!'
He said, 'Ye shall sow for seven years, as is your wont; but what ye
reap, let it remain in the ear, except a little whereof ye shall
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: from under the penthouse of its bushy brows, the while he slowly
twirled and twisted his bristling wiry mustaches, as was his wont
when in meditation. At last he broke the silence. "How old art
thou?" said he, abruptly.
"I be turned seventeen last April," Myles answered, as he had the
evening before to Lord Mackworth.
"Humph!" said Sir James; "thou be'st big of bone and frame for
thine age. I would that thy heart were more that of a man
likewise, and less that of a giddy, hare-brained boy, thinking
continually of naught but mischief."
Again he fell silent, and Myles sat quite still, wondering if it
Men of Iron |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Message by Honore de Balzac: very different aspects, in such a sort that there was a certain
grotesque element in the very midst of a most terrible tragedy.
The evening that followed was dreary. I was tired. The canon
racked his brains to discover a reason for his niece's tears. The
lady's husband silently digested his dinner; content, apparently,
with the Countess' rather vague explanation, sent through the
maid, putting forward some feminine ailment as her excuse. We all
went early to bed.
As I passed the door of the Countess' room on the way to my
night's lodging, I asked the servant timidly for news of her. She
heard my voice, and would have me come in, and tried to talk, but
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