| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Octopus by Frank Norris: working like pistons, backed away, dragging and carrying the
others with him.
More than once, he loosened almost every grip, and for an instant
stood nearly free, panting, rolling his eyes, his clothes torn
from his body, bleeding, dripping with sweat, a terrible figure,
nearly free. The sheriff, under his breath, uttered an
exclamation:
"By God, he'll get away yet."
S. Behrman watched the fight complacently.
"That all may show obstinacy," he commented, "but it don't show
common sense."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Symposium by Plato: custom is held to be dishonourable; loves of youths share the evil repute
in which philosophy and gymnastics are held, because they are inimical to
tyranny; for the interests of rulers require that their subjects should be
poor in spirit (compare Arist. Politics), and that there should be no
strong bond of friendship or society among them, which love, above all
other motives, is likely to inspire, as our Athenian tyrants learned by
experience; for the love of Aristogeiton and the constancy of Harmodius had
a strength which undid their power. And, therefore, the ill-repute into
which these attachments have fallen is to be ascribed to the evil condition
of those who make them to be ill-reputed; that is to say, to the self-
seeking of the governors and the cowardice of the governed; on the other
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: then understand? But those who hold fast by the Book and are steadfast
in prayer- verily, we will not waste the hire of those who do right.
And when we shook the mountain over them, as though it were a
shadow, and they thought it would fall upon them (saying), 'Take ye
what we have given you with firmness, and remember what is therein;
haply ye may fear.'
And when thy Lord took from the children of Adam out of their
loins their seed, and made them bear witness against themselves, 'Am I
not your Lord?' They said, 'Yea! we do bear witness'- lest ye should
say on the day of resurrection, 'Verily, for this we did not care;' or
say, Verily, our fathers associated others with God before us, and
The Koran |
