| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Mother by Owen Wister: very direct connection at present. Yet in spite of this, the population
had increased 23 and seven-tenths per cent in five years, and now an
electric railway was in construction that would double the population in
the next five years. This was less than what had happened to other
neighbouring resorts under identical conditions; yet with things as they
now were, the company was earning two per cent on its stock, which was
being put into improvements. The stock was selling at 30, and if a
dividend was paid next year, it would go to par. But Mr. Beverly did not
counsel buying the stock. 'I did not let mother have any,' he said,
'though I took some myself. But the bonds are different. You're getting
the last that will be sold at par. In three days they will be placed
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: was not us ye worshipped.- But God is witness enough between us and
you, that we were heedless of your worshipping us.' There shall
every soul prove what it has sent on before; and they shall be
returned unto God, their God, their true sovereign, and that which
they devised shall stray away from them.
Say, 'Who provides you from the heaven and the earth? who has
dominion over hearing and sight? and who brings forth the living
from the dead, and brings forth the dead from the living? and who
governs the affair?' And they will say, 'God.' Say, 'Do ye not then
fear?'
That is God, your true Lord! and what is there after the truth but
The Koran |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King Lear by William Shakespeare: Before Gloucester's Castle.
Enter Kent and [Oswald the] Steward, severally.
Osw. Good dawning to thee, friend. Art of this house?
Kent. Ay.
Osw. Where may we set our horses?
Kent. I' th' mire.
Osw. Prithee, if thou lov'st me, tell me.
Kent. I love thee not.
Osw. Why then, I care not for thee.
Kent. If I had thee in Lipsbury Pinfold, I would make thee care
for
King Lear |
