| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: enjoy,- but at length they shall know!
And they set aside for what they know not a portion of what we
have bestowed upon them.- By God! ye shall be questioned concerning
that which ye have devised.
They make for God daughters;- celebrated be His praise!-and for
themselves they like them not.
When any one of them has tidings of a female child, his face is
overclouded and black, and he has to keep back his wrath.
He skulks away from the people, for the evil tidings he has
heard;- is he to keep it with its disgrace, or to bury it in the
dust?- aye! evil is it that they judge!
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde: your own mind for a single moment. An hour and a half ago in the
Drawing-room you agreed to the whole thing; now you turn round and
make objections, and try to force me to give up my one chance in
life. Yes, my one chance. You don't suppose that men like Lord
Illingworth are to be found every day, do you, mother? It is very
strange that when I have had such a wonderful piece of good luck,
the one person to put difficulties in my way should be my own
mother. Besides, you know, mother, I love Hester Worsley. Who
could help loving her? I love her more than I have ever told you,
far more. And if I had a position, if I had prospects, I could - I
could ask her to - Don't you understand now, mother, what it means
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lost Continent by Edgar Rice Burroughs: know if Victory could swim, but death, immediate and
terrible, stared us in the face if we remained, and so I
took the chance.
At this point the current ran close to the shore, so that we
were immediately in deep water, and, to my intense
satisfaction, Victory struck out with a strong, overhand
stroke and set all my fears on her account at rest.
But my relief was short-lived. That lioness, as I have said
before, was a veritable devil. She stood for a moment
glaring at us, then like a shot she sprang into the river
and swam swiftly after us.
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