| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from An Episode Under the Terror by Honore de Balzac: is infinite, our capacity to feel is limited. So, as the stranger lady
met with no harm from her supposed persecutor, she tried to look upon
him as an unknown friend anxious to protect her. She thought of all
the circumstances in which the stranger had appeared, and put them
together, as if to find some ground for this comforting theory, and
felt inclined to credit him with good intentions rather than bad.
Forgetting the fright that he had given the pastry-cook, she walked on
with a firmer step through the upper end of the Faubourg Saint Martin;
and another half-hour's walk brought her to a house at the corner
where the road to the Barriere de Pantin turns off from the main
thoroughfare. Even at this day, the place is one of the least
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories by Mark Twain: steps the Major approached the damsel, with the same caution
as he would have done in a field of battle. "Lady Ambulinia,"
said he, trembling, "I have long desired a moment like this.
I dare not let it escape. I fear the consequences; yet I hope
your indulgence will at least hear my petition. Can you not
anticipate what I would say, and what I am about to express?
Will not you, like Minerva, who sprung from the brain of Jupiter,
release me from thy winding chains or cure me--" "Say no more,
Elfonzo," answered Ambulinia, with a serious look, raising her hand
as if she intended to swear eternal hatred against the whole world;
"another lady in my place would have perhaps answered your question
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: save whomsoever God shall have mercy on; verily, He is the mighty, the
merciful!
Verily, the Zaqqum tree (shall be) the food of the sinful: as it
were melting, shall it boil in their bellies like the boiling of hot
water!-'Take him and hale him into the midst of hell! then pour over
his head the torment of hot water!-Taste! verily, thou art the mighty,
the honourable! Verily, this is that whereon ye did dispute!'
Verily, the pious shall be in a safe place! in gardens and
springs, they shall be clad in satin and stout silk face to face.
Thus!-and we will wed them to bright and large-eyed maids! They
shall call therein for every fruit in safety. They shall not taste
The Koran |
