The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Hated Son by Honore de Balzac: reach to enormous distances and seize, with admirable ease and without
fatigue, the fleeting tints of the clouds, the passing shimmer of the
waters. On days of perfect stillness his eyes could see the manifold
tints of the ocean, which to him, like the face of a woman, had its
physiognomy, its smiles, ideas, caprices; there green and sombre; here
smiling and azure; sometimes uniting its brilliant lines with the hazy
gleams of the horizon, or again, softly swaying beneath the orange-
tinted heavens. For him all-glorious fetes were celebrated at sundown
when the star of day poured its red colors on the waves in a crimson
flood. For him the sea was gay and sparkling and spirited when it
quivered in repeating the noonday light from a thousand dazzling
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from O Pioneers! by Willa Cather: sure she's a clever little girl," he murmured,
looking at her thoughtfully. "Let me see--
Ah, it's your mother that she looks like, Alex-
andra. Mrs. Bergson must have looked just
like this when she was a little girl. Does Milly
run about over the country as you and Alex-
andra used to, Annie?"
Milly's mother protested. "Oh, my, no!
Things has changed since we was girls. Milly
has it very different. We are going to rent the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Princess by Alfred Tennyson: They flashed a saucy message to and fro
Between the mimic stations; so that sport
Went hand in hand with Science; otherwhere
Pure sport; a herd of boys with clamour bowled
And stumped the wicket; babies rolled about
Like tumbled fruit in grass; and men and maids
Arranged a country dance, and flew through light
And shadow, while the twangling violin
Struck up with Soldier-laddie, and overhead
The broad ambrosial aisles of lofty lime
Made noise with bees and breeze from end to end.
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