| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from La Grenadiere by Honore de Balzac: which one can never have enough.
She was always dressed in time to hear their lessons, which lasted
from ten till three, with an interval at noon for lunch, the three
taking the meal together in the summer-house. After lunch the children
played for an hour, while she--poor woman and happy mother--lay on a
long sofa in the summer-house, so placed that she could look out over
the soft, ever-changing country of Touraine, a land that you learn to
see afresh in all the thousand chance effects produced by daylight and
sky and the time of year.
The children scampered through the orchard, scrambled about the
terraces, chased the lizards, scarcely less nimble than they;
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: forth with me, nor shall ye ever fight a foe with me! verily, ye
were content to sit at home the first time, sit ye then now with those
who stay behind.'
Pray not for any one of them who dies, and stand not by his tomb;
verily, they disbelieved in God and His Apostle and died workers of
abomination!
Let not their wealth and their children please you, God only
wishes to torment them therewith in this world, and that their souls
may pass away the while they misbelieve.
Whenever a surah is sent down to them, 'Believe ye in God, and fight
strenuously together with His Apostle,' those of them who have the
The Koran |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Copy-Cat & Other Stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: did not understand them, nor they her. They
were, on the whole, better than she thought, but
with her there was a stern limit of endurance. Some-
thing whiter and hotter than mere wrath was in the
girl's soul as she sat there and listened to the build-
ing of that structure of essential falsehood about
herself.
She waited until Tom Reed had gone. He did
not stay long. Then she went down-stairs with
flying feet, and stood among them in the moonlight.
Her father had come out of the study, and Benny
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