| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Life in the Iron-Mills by Rebecca Davis: of the Welsh puddler passing just now is not so pleasant. To be
stowed away, after his grimy work is done, in a hole in the
muddy graveyard, and after that, not air, nor green fields, nor
curious roses.
Can you see how foggy the day is? As I stand here, idly tapping
the windowpane, and looking out through the rain at the dirty
back-yard and the coalboats below, fragments of an old story
float up before me,--a story of this house into which I happened
to come to-day. You may think it a tiresome story enough, as
foggy as the day, sharpened by no sudden flashes of pain or
pleasure.--I know: only the outline of a dull life, that long
Life in the Iron-Mills |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: they went, hand in hand.
Yes, that was a very fine thing to say; but before an hour had
gone by the Fiddler's head began to hum and buzz like a beehive.
"I don't believe," said he, "there would be a grain of harm in my
peeping inside that door; all the same, I will not do it. I will
just go down and peep through the key-hole." So off he went to do
as he said; but there was no key-hole to that door, either. "Why,
look!" says he, "it is just like the door at the rich man's house
over yonder; I wonder if it is the same inside as outside," and
he opened the door and peeped in. Yes; there was the long passage
and the spark of light at the far end, as though the sun were
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: others: and if thou followest their lusts after the knowledge that has
come to thee then art thou of the evildoers.
Those whom we have given the Book know him as they know their
sons, although a sect of them do surely hide the truth, the while they
know.
The truth (is) from thy Lord; be not therefore one of those who
doubt thereof.
Every sect has some one side to which they turn (in prayer); but
do ye hasten onwards to good works; wherever ye are God will bring you
all together; verily, God is mighty over all.
From whencesoever thou comest forth, there turn thy face towards the
The Koran |
