| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from In the South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson: have warmed and condescended to Madame Broisat in the MARQUIS DE
VILLEMER. It was my part to accompany our guests ashore: when I
kissed the little girl good-bye at the pier steps, Vaekehu gave a
cry of gratification, reached down her hand into the boat, took
mine, and pressed it with that flattering softness which seems the
coquetry of the old lady in every quarter of the earth. The next
moment she had taken Stanislao's arm, and they moved off along the
pier in the moonlight, leaving me bewildered. This was a queen of
cannibals; she was tattooed from hand to foot, and perhaps the
greatest masterpiece of that art now extant, so that a while ago,
before she was grown prim, her leg was one of the sights of Tai-o-
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley: indulged in the most melancholy reflections. I, who had ever
been surrounded by amiable companions, continually engaged
in endeavouring to bestow mutual pleasure--I was now alone.
In the university whither I was going I must form my own friends and
be my own protector. My life had hitherto been remarkably secluded
and domestic, and this had given me invincible repugnance to new
countenances. I loved my brothers, Elizabeth, and Clerval; these were
"old familiar faces," but I believed myself totally unfitted for the
company of strangers. Such were my reflections as I commenced
my journey; but as I proceeded, my spirits and hopes rose.
I ardently desired the acquisition of knowledge. I had often,
Frankenstein |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: O ye who do believe! eat of the good things wherewith we have
provided you, and give thanks unto God if it be Him ye serve. He has
only forbidden for you what is dead, and blood, and flesh of swine,
and whatsoever has been consecrated to other than God; but he who is
forced, neither revolting nor transgressing, it is in no sin for
him; verily, God is forgiving and merciful.
Verily, those who hide what God has revealed of the Book, and sell
it for a little price, they shall eat nothing in their bellies save
fire; and God will not speak to them on the day of resurrection, nor
will He purify them, but for them is grievous woe.
They who sell guidance for error, and pardon for torment, how
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