| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Edingburgh Picturesque Notes by Robert Louis Stevenson: small a thing to the inexperienced! But those who have
made the experiment are of a different way of thinking,
and count it the most arduous form of idleness.
More swing doors open into pigeon-holes where judges
of the First Appeal sit singly, and halls of audience
where the supreme Lords sit by three or four. Here, you
may see Scott's place within the bar, where he wrote many
a page of Waverley novels to the drone of judicial
proceeding. You will hear a good deal of shrewdness,
and, as their Lordships do not altogether disdain
pleasantry, a fair proportion of dry fun. The broadest
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Vision Splendid by William MacLeod Raine: "By the gods, why shouldn't I dare? We played a game and both of
us have lost. You were to beckon and coolly flit, while I followed
safely at a distance. Do you think me a marble statue? Do you
think me too wooden for the strings of my heart to pulsate? By
heaven, my royal Hebe, you have blown the fire in me to life. You
must pay forfeit."
"Pay forfeit?"
"Yes. I'm your servant no longer, but your lover and your master--
and I intend to marry you."
"How ridiculous," she derided. "Have you forgotten Alice?"
"I have forgotten everything but you--and that I'm going to marry
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: of them will never be believers! And, verily, thy Lord He is mighty,
merciful.
And recite to them the story of Abraham; when he said to his
father and his people, 'What do ye serve?' They said, 'We serve idols,
and we are still devoted to them.' He said, 'Can they hear you when ye
call, or profit you, or harm?'
They said, 'No; but we found our, fathers doing thus.' He said,
'Have ye considered what ye have been serving, ye and your fathers
before you? Verily, they are foes to me, save only the Lord of the
worlds, who created me and guides me, and who gives me food and drink.
And when I am sick He heals me; He who will kill me, and then bring me
The Koran |
