| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: women whom ye knew not, whom ye might have trampled on, and so a crime
might have occurred to you on their account without your
knowledge-that God may make whomsoever He pleases enter into His
mercy. Had they been distinct from one another, we would have
tormented those of them who misbelieved with grievous woe.
When those who misbelieved put in their hearts pique-the pique of
ignorance-and God sent down His shechina upon His Apostle and upon the
believers, and obliged them to keep to the word of piety, and they
were most worthy of it and most suited for it; for God all things doth
know.
God truly verified for His Apostle the vision that ye shall verily
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe: it me, and that he thought I had merited it from him by giving
him my company so entirely as I had done. After this he made
me take a maid, and keep house, and his friend that come with
him to Bath being gone, he obliged me to diet him, which I did
very willingly, believing, as it appeared, that I should lose
nothing by it, not did the woman of the house fail to find her
account in it too.
We had lived thus near three months, when the company
beginning to wear away at the Bath, he talked of going away,
and fain he would have me to go to London with him. I was
not very easy in that proposal, not knowing what posture I
Moll Flanders |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens: certain that the national gratitude MUST relieve him from the
consequences of his late proceedings, and would certainly restore
him to his old place in the happy social system.
With these crumbs, or as one may say, with these whole loaves of
comfort to regale upon, Mr Dennis took his place among the escort
that awaited him, and repaired to jail with a manly indifference.
Arriving at Newgate, where some of the ruined cells had been
hastily fitted up for the safe keeping of rioters, he was warmly
received by the turnkeys, as an unusual and interesting case, which
agreeably relieved their monotonous duties. In this spirit, he was
fettered with great care, and conveyed into the interior of the
Barnaby Rudge |
