| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Animal Farm by George Orwell: ploughing had not been completed early enough. It was possible to foresee
that the coming winter would be a hard one.
The windmill presented unexpected difficulties. There was a good quarry of
limestone on the farm, and plenty of sand and cement had been found in one
of the outhouses, so that all the materials for building were at hand. But
the problem the animals could not at first solve was how to break up the
stone into pieces of suitable size. There seemed no way of doing this
except with picks and crowbars, which no animal could use, because no
animal could stand on his hind legs. Only after weeks of vain effort did
the right idea occur to somebody-namely, to utilise the force of gravity.
Huge boulders, far too big to be used as they were, were lying all over
Animal Farm |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Moby Dick by Herman Melville: --ULLOA'S SOUTH AMERICA.
"To fifty chosen sylphs of special note,
We trust the important charge, the petticoat.
Oft have we known that seven-fold fence to fail,
Tho' stuffed with hoops and armed with ribs of whale." --RAPE
OF THE LOCK.
"If we compare land animals in respect to magnitude, with those that
take up their abode in the deep, we shall find they will appear
contemptible in the comparison. The whale is doubtless the largest
animal in creation." --GOLDSMITH, NAT. HIST.
"If you should write a fable for little fishes, you would make them
Moby Dick |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: THE CHAPTER OF CATTLE
(VI. Mecca.)
IN the name of the merciful and compassionate, God!
Praise belongs to God who created the heavens and the earth, and
brought into being the darkness and the light. Yet do those who
misbelieve hold Him to have peers.
He it is who created you from clay; then He decreed a term,- a
term ordained with Him. And yet ye doubt thereof.
He is God in the heavens and the earth. He knows your secret conduct
and your plain, and He knows what ye earn.
There came not to them any sign of the signs of their Lord, but they
The Koran |
