| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas: So you see, still, everything is to be bought, if not in one
way, by another."
"So, Colbert, in your opinion, is in a fair way of
bargaining for my place of superintendent. Make yourself
easy on that head, my dear marquise; he is not yet rich
enough to purchase it."
"But if he should rob you of it?"
"Ah! that is another thing. Unfortunately, before he can
reach me, that is to say, the body of the place, he must
destroy, must make a breach in the advanced works, and I am
devilishly well fortified, marquise."
Ten Years Later |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Old Indian Legends by Zitkala-Sa: disappeared into her teepee. In a moment she came running out
again, crying, "My son! My little son is gone!" Her keen eyes
swept east and west and all around her. There was nowhere any sign
of the child.
Running with clinched fists to the nearest teepees, she
called: "Has any one seen my baby? He is gone! My little son is
gone!"
"Hinnu! Hinnu!" exclaimed the women, rising to their feet and
rushing out of their wigwams.
"We have not seen your child! What has happened?" queried the
women.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: wives and seed that which may cheer our eyes, and make us models to
the pious!'
These shall be rewarded with a high place for that they were
patient: and they shall meet therein with salutation and peace,-to
dwell therein for aye; a good abode and station shall it be!
Say, 'My Lord cares not for you though you should not call (on Him);
and ye have called (the Apostle) a liar, but it shall be (a
punishment) which ye cannot shake off.'
THE CHAPTER OF THE POETS
(XXVI. Mecca.)
IN the name of the merciful and compassionate God.
The Koran |
