| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: shall come forth in haste from the graves, as though they flock to a
standard! with their looks abashed; meanness shall cover them! That is
the day which they were promised!
THE CHAPTER OF NOAH
(LXXI. Mecca.)
IN the name of the merciful and compassionate God.
Verily, we sent Noah to his people, 'Warn thy people before there
come to them a grievous torment!'
Said he, 'O my people! verily, I am to you an obvious warner, that
ye serve God and fear Him and obey me. He will pardon you your sins,
and will defer you unto an appointed time; verily, God's appointed
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Several Works by Edgar Allan Poe: insure their immediate disappearance, one and all, as soon as my
back was turned.
I took from their sconces two flambeaux, and giving one to
Fortunato, bowed him through several suites of rooms to the archway
that led into the vaults. I passed down a long and winding
staircase, requesting him to be cautious as he followed. We
came at length to the foot of the descent, and stood together on
the damp ground of the catacombs of the Montresors.
The gait of my friend was unsteady, and the bells upon his cap
jingled as he strode.
"The pipe," said he.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Amazing Interlude by Mary Roberts Rinehart: explanatory of the way things went for Sara Lee from that time on that
he quite forgot his newspapers.
The chairs were gone from the decks, preparatory to the morning landing,
so they walked about and Sara Lee at last told him her story - the
ladies of the Methodist Church, and the one hundred dollars a month she
was to have, outside of her traveling expenses, to found and keep going
a soup kitchen behind the lines.
"A hundred dollars a month," he said. "That's twenty pounds. Humph!
Good God!"
But this last was under his breath.
Then she told him of Mabel Andrews' letter, and at last read it to him.
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