| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Profits of Religion by Upton Sinclair: he was quite polite." "And what was your impression of him?" "Oh,
how he stank!" I answer that this is the odor of sanctity, and my
friend thinks that I am enormously witty; I have to explain to
her that I am not jesting, but that there are definite
physiological phenomena incidental to the ecstatic life.
The Book of Mormon
Or let us take a trip to Salt Lake City, the headquarters of a
still stranger cult.
On the morning of the 22nd of September, 1827, the Angel of the
Lord delivered unto Joseph Smith, Jr., an ignorant farmer-youth
in a "backwoods" part of New York State, some plates which had
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: "Consisted in? . . .
"He invited me for the lodgers; it was not an acquaintance at
all," answered Maslova, anxiously moving her eyes from the
president to the public prosecutor and back to the president.
"I should like to know why Kartinkin invited only Maslova, and
none of the other girls, for the lodgers?" said the public
prosecutor, with half-closed eyes and a cunning, Mephistophelian
smile.
"I don't know. How should I know?" said Maslova, casting a
frightened look round, and fixing her eyes for a moment on
Nekhludoff. "He asked whom he liked."
Resurrection |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Moral Emblems by Robert Louis Stevenson: Some like these;
Not I.
Some like Poe,
And others like Scott,
Some like Mrs. Stowe;
Some not.
Some like to laugh,
Some like to cry,
Some like chaff;
Not I.
Poem: II
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