| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from One Basket by Edna Ferber: only. An' he sent a dispatch to the farm. Can't you read our
letters, Dike, that you didn't know we was here now? And then
he's only got an hour more. They got to go to Camp Grant to be,
now, demobilized. He came out to Minnie's on a chance. Ain't he
big!"
But Dike and his father were looking at each other quietly. Then
Dike spoke. His speech was not phlegmatic, as of old. He had a
new clipped way of uttering his words:
"Say, Pop, you ought to see the way the Frenchies farm! They
got about an acre each, and, say, they use every inch of it. If
they's a little dirt blows into the crotch of a tree, they plant
One Basket |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Vailima Letters by Robert Louis Stevenson: but if I don't make hay of him, it shall not be for want of
trying.
Yesterday, we had two Germans and a young American boy to
lunch; and in the afternoon, Vailima was in a state of siege;
ten white people on the front verandah, at least as many
brown in the cook house, and countless blacks to see the
black boy Arrick.
Which reminds me, Arrick was sent Friday was a week to the
German Firm with a note, and was not home on time. Lloyd and
I were going bedward, it was late with a bright moon - ah,
poor dog, you know no such moons as these! - when home came
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: not give to men a jot.
Do they envy man for what God has given of His grace? We have
given to Abraham's people the Book and wisdom, and we have given
them a mighty kingdom. And of them are some who believe therein, and
of them are some who turn from it, but Hell is flaming enough for
them.
Verily, those who disbelieve in our signs, we will broil them with
fire; whenever their skins are well done, then we will change them for
other skins, that they may taste the torment. Verily, God is
glorious and wise.
But those who believe and do aright, we will make them enter gardens
The Koran |
