| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: leaden mirror of the Thames brightened with autumnal foliage, and
the fallen leaves of the chestnuts chirped under the composer's
footing. There is no time of the year in England more courageous;
and Jimson, though he was not without his troubles, whistled as
he went.
A little above Padwick the river lies very solitary. On the
opposite shore the trees of a private park enclose the view, the
chimneys of the mansion just pricking forth above their clusters;
on the near side the path is bordered by willows. Close among
these lay the houseboat, a thing so soiled by the tears of the
overhanging willows, so grown upon with parasites, so decayed, so
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: Cathleen was so mortified she said she'd rather the house had been
burned. She said Cade would bust when he came home and heard about
it. But then, that's what a man gets for marrying a Yankee woman--
no pride, no decency, always thinking about their own skins. . . .
How come they didn't burn Tara, Scarlett?"
For a moment Scarlett paused before answering. She knew the very
next question would be: "And how are all your folks? And how is
your dear mother?" She knew she could not tell them Ellen was
dead. She knew that if she spoke those words or even let herself
think of them in the presence of these sympathetic women, she would
burst into a storm of tears and cry until she was sick. And she
Gone With the Wind |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: are encompassed about; then they call on God, sincere in religion
towards Him, 'If thou dost save from this we will surely be of those
who thank.' But when He has saved them, lo! they are wilful in the
earth unjustly;- O ye folk! your wilfulness against yourselves is
but a provision of this world's life; then unto us is your return, and
we will inform you of that which ye have done!
Verily, the likeness of this world's life is like water which we
send down from the sky, and the plants of the earth, from which men
and cattle eat, are mingled therewith; until when the earth puts on
its gilding and is adorned, the people thereof think that they have
power over it. Our order comes to it by night or day, and we make it
The Koran |
