| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: That is one of the stories of the cities which we recite to thee-
some of them are standing now and some mown down!
We did not wrong them, but they wronged themselves. Their gods
availed them naught, on which they called instead of God, when once
the bidding of thy Lord had come; nor did they add save to their
downfall!
Thus is thy Lord's overtaking when He overtakes the cities that have
done wrong; verily, His overtaking is grievous, keen.
Verily, in that is a sign to him who fears the torment of the last
day;- that is a day unto which men shall be gathered;- that is a
witnessed day!
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: there being on the whole no decent pretext to justify her flitting
casually past at three o'clock in the morning. That was the hour
at which, if the ha'penny novels were not all wrong, he probably
came home for the night. She was therefore reduced to the vainest
figuration of the miraculous meeting toward which a hundred
impossibilities would have to conspire. But if nothing was more
impossible than the fact, nothing was more intense than the vision.
What may not, we can only moralise, take place in the quickened
muffled perception of a young person with an ardent soul? All our
humble friend's native distinction, her refinement of personal
grain, of heredity, of pride, took refuge in this small throbbing
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce: inhabitant of London, whereby to filter the visible universe in its
passage to the lungs.
RESPITE, n. A suspension of hostilities against a sentenced assassin,
to enable the Executive to determine whether the murder may not have
been done by the prosecuting attorney. Any break in the continuity of
a disagreeable expectation.
Altgeld upon his incandescend bed
Lay, an attendant demon at his head.
"O cruel cook, pray grant me some relief --
Some respite from the roast, however brief."
"Remember how on earth I pardoned all
The Devil's Dictionary |
