| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: doing; their account is only with my Lord, if ye but perceive. And I
am not one to drive away the believers, I am only a plain warner.'
They said, 'Verily, if thou desist not, O Noah! thou shalt surely be
of those who are stoned!' Said he, 'My Lord! verily, my people call me
liar; open between me and between them an opening, and save me and
those of the believers who are with me!'
So we saved him and those with him in the laden ark, then we drowned
the rest; verily, in that is a sign, but most of them will never be
believers; and, verily, thy Lord He is mighty and merciful.
And 'Ad called the apostles liars; when their brother Hud said to
them, 'Will ye not fear? Verily, I am to you a faithful apostle;
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne: maps, his books of fortification, his instruments, &c. and by the help of a
crutch on one side, and Trim on the other,--my uncle Toby embarked for
Shandy-Hall.
The reason, or rather the rise of this sudden demigration was as follows:
The table in my uncle Toby's room, and at which, the night before this
change happened, he was sitting with his maps, &c. about him--being
somewhat of the smallest, for that infinity of great and small instruments
of knowledge which usually lay crowded upon it--he had the accident, in
reaching over for his tobacco-box, to throw down his compasses, and in
stooping to take the compasses up, with his sleeve he threw down his case
of instruments and snuffers;--and as the dice took a run against him, in
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Love Songs by Sara Teasdale: The Wind
Morning
Other Men
Embers
Message
The Lamp
IV
A November Night
Love Songs
I
Barter
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