| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Amy Foster by Joseph Conrad: them many women and children who made much
noise. A cold rain fell, the wind blew in his face;
he was wet through, and his teeth chattered. He
and the young man from the same valley took each
other by the hand.
"They thought they were being taken to Amer-
ica straight away, but suddenly the steam-machine
bumped against the side of a thing like a house on
the water. The walls were smooth and black, and
there uprose, growing from the roof as it were,
bare trees in the shape of crosses, extremely high.
Amy Foster |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Protagoras by Plato: opposed to the ignorance of these things?
At this point he would no longer nod assent, but was silent.
And why, I said, do you neither assent nor dissent, Protagoras?
Finish the argument by yourself, he said.
I only want to ask one more question, I said. I want to know whether you
still think that there are men who are most ignorant and yet most
courageous?
You seem to have a great ambition to make me answer, Socrates, and
therefore I will gratify you, and say, that this appears to me to be
impossible consistently with the argument.
My only object, I said, in continuing the discussion, has been the desire
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: God only is your patron, and His Apostle and those who believe,
who are steadfast in prayer and give alms, bowing down. Whoso taketh
as patrons God and His apostles and those who believe;- verily,
God's crew, they are victorious!
O ye who believe! take not for patrons those who take your
religion for a jest or a sport, from amongst those who have been given
the Book before and the misbelievers; but fear God if ye be believers.
Nor those who, when ye call to prayer, take it for a jest and a sport;
that is because they are a people who do not understand.
Say, 'O people of the Book! do ye disavow us, for aught but that
we believe in God, and what was revealed to us before, and for that
The Koran |
