| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London: On October 14th, in token of our earnestness in this matter, and in case you
do not relent, we shall kill a policeman on or near the corner of Polk Street
and Clermont Avenue.
Very cordially,
THE MINIONS OF MIDAS.
Again Mr. Hale laughed. His mind was full of a prospective deal with a Chicago
syndicate for the sale of all his street railways in that city, and so he went
on dictating to the stenographer, never giving it a second thought. But
somehow, I know not why, a heavy depression fell upon me. What if it were not
a joke, I asked myself, and turned involuntarily to the morning paper. There
it was, as befitted an obscure person of the lower classes, a paltry
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: attribute to Him! The inventor of the heavens and the earth! how can
He have a son, when He has no female companion, and when He has
created everything, and everything He knows?
There is God for you,- your Lord! There is no god but He, the
Creator of everything; then worship Him, for He o'er everything
keeps guard!
Sight perceives Him not, but He perceives men's sights; for He is
the subtle, the aware.
Now has an insight from your Lord come unto you, and he who looks
therewith it is for himself; but he who is blind thereto, it is
against his soul and I am not your keeper.
The Koran |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The People That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs: The fellow laughed. "Do it," he cried derisively, "and then it
may be that I shall believe the balance of your strange story."
"But I do not wish to kill any of them," I replied. "Why should I?"
"Why not?" he insisted. "They would have killed you when they
had you prisoner. They would kill you now if they could get
their hands on you, and they would eat you into the bargain.
But I know why you do not try it--it is because you have spoken
lies; your weapon will not kill at a great distance. It is
only a queerly wrought club. For all I know, you are nothing
more than a lowly Bo-lu."
"Why should you wish me to kill your own people?" I asked.
The People That Time Forgot |
