| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: when, the Hour shall arise on that day shall those who call it vain be
losers! And thou shalt see each nation kneeling, each nation
summoned to its book, 'To-day are ye rewarded for that which ye have
done.'
This is our Book that speaketh to you with truth; verily, we have
written down what ye have done.
But as to those who believe and do righteous deeds their Lord will
make them enter into His mercy: that is the obvious bliss.
And as for those who misbelieve,- were not my signs recited to you
and ye were too big with pride and ye were a sinful people? And when
it was said, 'Verily, the promise of God is true, and the Hour there
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Night and Day by Virginia Woolf: matter drop.
"Doesn't it seem strange to you, Miss Hilbery," he said, "that the
French, with all their wealth of illustrious names, have no poet who
can compare with your grandfather? Let me see. There's Chenier and
Hugo and Alfred de Musset--wonderful men, but, at the same time,
there's a richness, a freshness about Alardyce--"
Here the telephone bell rang, and he had to absent himself with a
smile and a bow which signified that, although literature is
delightful, it is not work. Mrs. Seal rose at the same time, but
remained hovering over the table, delivering herself of a tirade
against party government. "For if I were to tell you what I know of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Figure in the Carpet by Henry James: stood at the door she added: "You've insulted him!"
"Do you mean Vereker?"
"I mean the Dead!"
I recognised when I reached the street the justice of her charge.
Yes, it was her life - I recognised that too; but her life none the
less made room with the lapse of time for another interest. A year
and a half after Corvick's death she published in a single volume
her second novel, "Overmastered," which I pounced on in the hope of
finding in it some tell-tale echo or some peeping face. All I
found was a much better book than her younger performance, showing
I thought the better company she had kept. As a tissue tolerably
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