| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: Or dost thou ask them a hire, while they are borne down by debt?
Or have they the unseen, so that they write it down?
Or do they desire a plot?- but those who misbelieve it is who are
plotted against!
Or have they a god beside God? celebrated be God's praises above
what they join with Him!
But if they should see a fragment of the sky falling down, they
would say, 'Clouds in masses!'
But leave them till they meet that day of theirs whereon they
shall swoon; the day when their plotting shall avail them naught,
and they shall not be helped!
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Dreams & Dust by Don Marquis: To make sport and make spoil of the Summer,
who dwells in a dream on the plain,
Still tented in opulent ease in the camps of her
indolent train.
"TIME STEALS FROM LOVE"
TIME steals from Love all but Love's wings;
And how should aught but evil things,
Or any good but death, befall
Him that is thrall unto Time's thrall,
Slave to the lesser of these Kings?
O heart of youth that wakes and sings!
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte: parson; and the girls, as soon as they left school, would seek
places as governesses: for they had told her their father had some
years ago lost a great deal of money by a man he had trusted turning
bankrupt; and as he was now not rich enough to give them fortunes,
they must provide for themselves. They had lived very little at
home for a long while, and were only come now to stay a few weeks on
account of their father's death; but they did so like Marsh End and
Morton, and all these moors and hills about. They had been in
London, and many other grand towns; but they always said there was
no place like home; and then they were so agreeable with each other-
-never fell out nor "threaped." She did not know where there was
Jane Eyre |
