| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from An Inland Voyage by Robert Louis Stevenson: ceaseless stream of water visits and makes green the fields. Kine,
and horses, and little humorous donkeys, browse together in the
meadows, and come down in troops to the river-side to drink. They
make a strange feature in the landscape; above all when they are
startled, and you see them galloping to and fro with their
incongruous forms and faces. It gives a feeling as of great,
unfenced pampas, and the herds of wandering nations. There were
hills in the distance upon either hand; and on one side, the river
sometimes bordered on the wooded spurs of Coucy and St. Gobain.
The artillery were practising at La Fere; and soon the cannon of
heaven joined in that loud play. Two continents of cloud met and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: one company of you getting anxious about themselves, suspecting
about God other than the truth, with the suspicion of the ignorant,
and saying, 'Have we any chance in the affair?' Say, 'Verily, the
affair is God's.' They conceal in themselves what they will not show
to thee, and say, 'If we had any chance in the affair we should not be
killed here.' Say, 'If ye were in your houses, surely those against
whom slaughter was written down, would have gone forth to fight even
to where they are lying now; that God may try what is in your
breasts and assay what is in your hearts, for God doth know the nature
of men's breasts.'
Verily, those of you who turned your backs on that day when the
The Koran |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll: The crew was complete: it included a Boots--
A maker of Bonnets and Hoods--
A Barrister, brought to arrange their disputes--
And a Broker, to value their goods.
A Billiard-maker, whose skill was immense,
Might perhaps have won more than his share--
But a Banker, engaged at enormous expense,
Had the whole of their cash in his care.
There was also a Beaver, that paced on the deck,
Or would sit making lace in the bow:
And had often (the Bellman said) saved them from wreck,
The Hunting of the Snark |
