| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Master Key by L. Frank Baum: with grief and disappointment. But when one of the pirates, to
inflict further punishment on the boy, came towards him with a heavy
strap, he resolved not to await the blow.
Turning the indicator to the word "up" he found, to his joy and
relief, that it would yet obey the influence of the power of
repulsion. Seeing him rise into the air the fellow made a grab for
his foot and held it firmly, while his companions ran to help him.
Weight seemed to make no difference in the machine; it lifted the
pirate as well as Rob; it lifted another who clung to the first man's
leg, and another who clung to him. The other two also caught hold,
hoping their united strength would pull him down, and the next minute
The Master Key |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Alkahest by Honore de Balzac: preserved as a choice old picture, or some rare book cherished by an
amateur, which would be ever new were it not for the blistering of our
climate and the effect of gases, whose pernicious breath threatens our
own health.
The cloudy skies and humid atmosphere of Flanders, and the shadows
produced by the narrowness of the street, sometimes diminished the
brilliancy which the old house derived from its cleanliness; moreover,
the very care bestowed upon it made it rather sad and chilling to the
eye. A poet might have wished some leafage about the shrine, a little
moss in the crevices of the freestone, a break in the even courses of
the brick; he would have longed for a swallow to build her nest in the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: 'I will not follow your lusts, for then should I err and not be of the
guided.'
Say, 'I stand on a manifestation from my Lord, which ye call a
lie. I have not with me what ye fain would hasten on, that the
matter might be settled between me and you; but God knows best who are
the unjust.'
With Him are the keys of the unseen. None knows them save He; He
knows what is in the land and in the sea; and there falls not a leaf
save that He knows it; nor a grain in the darkness of the earth, nor
aught that is moist, nor aught that is dry, save that is in His
perspicuous Book.
The Koran |
