| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Idylls of the King by Alfred Tennyson: Then, those two brethren slowly with bent brows
Accompanying, the sad chariot-bier
Past like a shadow through the field, that shone
Full-summer, to that stream whereon the barge,
Palled all its length in blackest samite, lay.
There sat the lifelong creature of the house,
Loyal, the dumb old servitor, on deck,
Winking his eyes, and twisted all his face.
So those two brethren from the chariot took
And on the black decks laid her in her bed,
Set in her hand a lily, o'er her hung
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: their calling, and when men are gathered together are enemies of
theirs and do deny their service?
And when our evident signs are recited to them, those who misbelieve
say of the truth when it comes to them, 'This is obvious magic.'
Or do they say, 'He has forged it?' Say, 'If I have forged ye cannot
obtain for me aught from God; He knows best what ye utter concerning
it; He is witness enough between me and you, and He is the
forgiving, the merciful.'
Say, 'I am not an innovator among the apostles; nor do I know what
will be done with me or with you if I follow aught but what I am
inspired with; nor am I aught but a plain warner.'
The Koran |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo: Jean Valjean had not another word to say.
Cosette shrugged her shoulders.
"To have the chairs carried off! The other day you had the fire
put out. How odd you are!"
"Adieu!" murmured Jean Valjean.
He did not say: "Adieu, Cosette." But he had not the strength to say:
"Adieu, Madame."
He went away utterly overwhelmed.
This time he had understood.
On the following day he did not come. Cosette only observed
the fact in the evening.
Les Miserables |
