| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Manon Lescaut by Abbe Prevost: had been transferred from the Chatelet, but that he could not
even obtain permission to see her, as the lieutenant-general of
police had given the strictest orders to the contrary; and that,
to complete the catastrophe, the unfortunate train of convicts,
in which she was to be included, was to take its departure from
Paris the day but one after.
"I was so confounded by what he said, that if he had gone on
speaking for another hour, I should not have interrupted him. He
continued to tell me, that the reason of his not calling to see
me at the Chatelet was, that he hoped to be of more use by
appearing to be unknown to me; that for the last few hours, since
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy: He spent nearly two hours over his grammar
and writing books without understanding a word
of what he saw before him; then he rose and be-
gan to stamp up and down the room, trying to
recollect all that his father had said to him. All
the abuse showered upon him, and worst of all
his father's angry face, were as fresh in his mem-
ory as if he saw and heard them all over again.
"Silly boy! You ought to get a good thrash-
ing!" And the more he thought of it the angrier
be grew. He remembered also how his father
The Forged Coupon |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: do not call on aught save a rebellious devil.
God curse him! for he said, 'I will take from thy servants a portion
due to me and I will lead them astray; and I will stir up vain desires
within them; and I will order them and they shall surely crop the ears
of cattle; and I will order them and they shall surely alter God's
creation;' but he who takes the devil for his patron instead of God,
he loses with a manifest loss. He promises them, and stirs up vain
desires within them; but the devil promises only to deceive.
These, their resort is hell; they shall not find an escape
therefrom! But those who believe, and do what is right, we will make
them enter into gardens beneath which rivers flow, to dwell therein
The Koran |
