| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: mate, and his brother and his kin who stand by him, and all who are in
the earth, that yet it might rescue him!
Nay, verily, it is a flame,-dragging by the scalp! it shall call
those who retreated and turned their backs and who amassed and
hoarded!
Verily, man is by nature rash! when evil touches him, very
impatient; when good touches him, niggardly; all save those who
pray, who remain at their prayers, and in whose wealth is a reasonable
due (set aside) for him who asks and him who is kept from asking,
and those who believe in a day of judgment, and those who shrink in
terror from the torment of their Lord;-verily, the torment of their
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Man of Business by Honore de Balzac: views in the matter of womankind. Daddy Croizeau went to dine with 'M.
Denisart's fair lady,' as he called her. And here I must make a
somewhat important observation.
"The reading-room had been paid for half in cash, half in bills signed
by the said Mlle. Chocardelle. The /quart d'heure de Rabelais/
arrived; the Count had no money. So the first bill of three thousand
francs was met by the amiable coach-builder; that old scoundrel
Denisart having recommended him to secure himself with a mortgage on
the reading-room.
" 'For my own part,' said Denisart, 'I have seen pretty doings from
pretty women. So in all cases, even when I have lost my head, I am
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne: loosening his sword in the scabbard, stepped boldly forward,
and threw the folding doors wide open. The moment she beheld
his stately figure standing in the doorway, the beautiful woman
rose from the loom, and ran to meet him with a glad smile
throwing its sunshine over her face, and both her hands
extended.
"Welcome, brave stranger!" cried she. "We were expecting you."
And the nymph with the sea-green hair made a courtesy down to
the ground, and likewise bade him welcome; so did her sister
with the bodice of oaken bark, and she that sprinkled dew-drops
from her fingers' ends, and the fourth one with some oddity
Tanglewood Tales |
