| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Time Machine by H. G. Wells: weed and the red rocks. And in the westward sky, I saw a curved
pale line like a vast new moon.
`So I travelled, stopping ever and again, in great strides of
a thousand years or more, drawn on by the mystery of the earth's
fate, watching with a strange fascination the sun grow larger and
duller in the westward sky, and the life of the old earth ebb
away. At last, more than thirty million years hence, the huge
red-hot dome of the sun had come to obscure nearly a tenth part
of the darkling heavens. Then I stopped once more, for the
crawling multitude of crabs had disappeared, and the red beach,
save for its livid green liverworts and lichens, seemed lifeless.
The Time Machine |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Young Forester by Zane Grey: up in smoke. An' Buell's sawmill went, too. It's almost a sure thing thet
Leslie an' old Bent got out safe, though they must be doin' some tall
worryin' about you. I wonder how they feel about me an' Bud an' Bill? A
little prematoore roastin' for us, eh? Wal, wal!"
We went back to the camp. I lay down near the fire and fell asleep. Some
time in the night I awoke. The fire was still burning brightly. Bud and
Bill were lying with their backs to it almost close enough to scorch. Herky
sat in his shirtsleeves. The smoke of his pipe and the smoke of the
campfire wafted up together. Then I saw and felt that he had covered me
with his coat and vest.
I slept far into the next day. Herky was in camp alone. The others had
The Young Forester |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: against them so long as I was amongst them; but when Thou didst take
me away to thyself Thou wert the watcher over them, for Thou art
witness over all. If Thou shouldst punish them, verily, they are Thy
servants; if Thou shouldst forgive them, verily, Thou art the mighty
and the wise.' God said, 'This is the day when their confession
shall profit the confessors, for them are gardens beneath which rivers
flow, to dwell therein for ever and for aye.'
God is well pleased with them, and they well pleased with Him;
that is the mighty happiness.
God's is the kingdom of the heavens, and the earth, and all that
is therein, and He is mighty over all.
The Koran |
