| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Man against the Sky by Edwin Arlington Robinson: So never mind what I have been,
Or anything, -- for you are dead.
"And after this when I am there
Where he is, you'll be dying still.
Your eyes are dead, and your black hair, --
The rest of you be what it will.
"'Twas all to save him? Never mind,
Eileen. You saved him. You are strong.
I'd hardly wonder if your kind
Paid everything, for you live long.
"You last, I mean. That's what I mean.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Persuasion by Jane Austen: on the head at once, before they reach Admiral Baldwin's age."
"Nay, Sir Walter," cried Mrs Clay, "this is being severe indeed.
Have a little mercy on the poor men. We are not all born to be handsome.
The sea is no beautifier, certainly; sailors do grow old betimes;
I have observed it; they soon lose the look of youth. But then,
is not it the same with many other professions, perhaps most other?
Soldiers, in active service, are not at all better off: and even in
the quieter professions, there is a toil and a labour of the mind,
if not of the body, which seldom leaves a man's looks to the natural
effect of time. The lawyer plods, quite care-worn; the physician
is up at all hours, and travelling in all weather; and even
Persuasion |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: judgment, and made me one of His messengers; and this is the favour
thou hast obliged me with, that thou hast enslaved the children of
Israel!'
Said Pharaoh, 'Who is the Lord of the worlds? Said he, 'The Lord
of the heavens and the earth and what is between the two, if ye are
but sure.'
Said he to those about him, 'Do ye not listen?' Said he, 'Your
Lord and the Lord of your fathers of yore!'
Said he, 'Verily, your apostle who is sent to you is surely mad!'
Said he, 'The Lord of the east and of the west, and of what is
between the two, if ye had but sense!'
The Koran |
