| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Emma McChesney & Co. by Edna Ferber: that the grade he selected is the proper weight for the tropics.
What? Oh, you say you assured him it was the weight of flannel
you always advise for South America. And you said they'd be
ready when? Next week? Thank you."
She hung up the receiver. The pupils of her eyes were dilated.
Her cheeks were very pink as always under excitement. She stood
up, her breath coming rather quickly.
"Hurray for the hunch! It holds. Fat Ed Meyers is going down
to South America for the Sans-Silk Company. It's what I've been
planning to do for the last six months. You remember I spoke of
it. You pooh-poohed the idea. It means hundreds of thousands of
Emma McChesney & Co. |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson: sword and cloak, and accompanied by one Master Jehan le
Mardi. Sermaise, according to Villon's account, which is all
we have to go upon, came up blustering and denying God; as
Villon rose to make room for him upon the bench, thrust him
rudely back into his place; and finally drew his sword and
cut open his lower lip, by what I should imagine was a very
clumsy stroke. Up to this point, Villon professes to have
been a model of courtesy, even of feebleness: and the brawl,
in his version, reads like the fable of the wolf and the
lamb. But now the lamb was roused; he drew his sword,
stabbed Sermaise in the groin, knocked him on the head with a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: 'Verily, my father calls thee, to reward thee with hire for having
watered our flocks for us.' And when he came to him and related to him
the story, said he, 'Fear not, thou art safe from the unjust
people.' Said one of them, 'O my sire! hire him; verily, the best of
those whom thou canst hire is the strong and faithful.'
Said he, 'Verily, I desire to marry thee to one of these daughters
of mine, on condition that thou dost serve me for hire eight years;
and if thou shalt fulfil ten it is of thyself; for I do not wish to
make it wretched for thee; thou wilt find me, if it please God, of the
righteous!'
Said he, 'That is between you and me; whichever of the two terms I
The Koran |
