| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Pupil by Henry James: you mean by that?"
"You practise on one's fears - one's fears about the child if one
should go away."
"And pray what would happen to him in that event?" she demanded,
with majesty.
"Why he'd be alone with YOU."
"And pray with whom SHOULD a child be but with those whom he loves
most?"
"If you think that, why don't you dismiss me?"
"Do you pretend he loves you more than he loves US?" cried Mrs.
Moreen.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: and gives alms; and those who are sure of their covenant when they
make a covenant; and the patient in poverty, and distress, and in time
of violence; these are they who are true, and these are those who
fear.
O ye who believe! Retaliation is prescribed for you for the slain:
the free for the free, the slave for the slave, the female for the
female; yet he who is pardoned at all by his brother, must be
prosecuted in reason, and made to pay with kindness.
That is an alleviation from your Lord, and a mercy; and he who
transgresses after that for him is grievous woe.
For you in retaliation is there life, O ye possessors of minds! it
The Koran |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mucker by Edgar Rice Burroughs: As though to punctuate his speech with the final period a
rifle cracked above them. Eddie jumped spasmodically and
clutched his breast.
"I'm hit," he said, quite unemotionally.
Billy Byrne's revolver had answered the shot from above
them, the bullet striking where Billy had seen a puff of smoke
following the rifle shot. Then Billy turned toward Eddie.
"Hit bad?" he asked.
"Yep, I guess so," said Eddie. "What'll we do? Hide up
here, or ride back after the others?"
Another shot rang out above them, although Billy had been
The Mucker |
