| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Professor by Charlotte Bronte: cold gleam of the October sun and sky; at frequent intervals
along the banks of the river, tall, cylindrical chimneys, almost
like slender round towers, indicated the factories which the
trees half concealed; here and there mansions, similar to
Crimsworth Hall, occupied agreeable sites on the hill-side; the
country wore, on the whole, a cheerful, active, fertile look.
Steam, trade, machinery had long banished from it all romance and
seclusion. At a distance of five miles, a valley, opening
between the low hills, held in its cups the great town of X----.
A dense, permanent vapour brooded over this locality--there lay
Edward's "Concern."
The Professor |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy: "Yes, but then how often the happiness of these prudent marriages
flies away like dust just because that passion turns up that they
have refused to recognize," said Vronsky.
"But by marriages of prudence we mean those in which both parties
have sown their wild oats already. That's like scarlatina--one
has to go through it and get it over."
"Then they ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like
smallpox."
"I was in love in my young days with a deacon," said the Princess
Myakaya. "I don't know that it did me any good."
"No; I imagine, jokingapart, that to know love, one must make
Anna Karenina |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: before,-and God's bidding is a decreed decree! Those who preach
God's messages and fear Him and fear not any one except God,-but God
is good enough at reckoning up.
Mohammed is not the father of any of your men, but the Apostle of
God, and the Seal of the Prophets; for God all things doth know!
O ye who believe! remember God with frequent remembrance, and
celebrate His praises morning and evening.
He it is who prays for you and His angels too, to bring you forth
out of the darkness into the light, for He is merciful to the
believers.
Their salutation on the day they meet Him shall be 'Peace!' and He
The Koran |
