| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll: The maker of Bonnets ferociously planned
A novel arrangement of bows:
While the Billiard-marker with quivering hand
Was chalking the tip of his nose.
But the Butcher turned nervous, and dressed himself fine,
With yellow kid gloves and a ruff--
Said he felt it exactly like going to dine,
Which the Bellman declared was all "stuff."
"Introduce me, now there's a good fellow," he said,
"If we happen to meet it together!"
And the Bellman, sagaciously nodding his head,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Underground City by Jules Verne: when there is no sun by which to calculate his position."
"No doubt, Mr. Starr," replied Ford; "but pray don't compare
our position with that of the sailor, who has everywhere and
always an abyss under his feet! We are on firm ground here,
and need never be afraid of foundering."
"I won't tease you, then, old Simon," answered James Starr. "Far be
it from me even in jest to depreciate the New Aberfoyle mine
by an unjust comparison! I only meant to say one thing,
and that is that we don't know where we are."
"We are in the subsoil of the county of Stirling, Mr. Starr,"
replied Simon Ford; "and that I assert as if--"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Unconscious Comedians by Honore de Balzac: the Chamber of Deputies."
"And above these two rounds in the ballet ladder what comes next?"
asked Gazonal.
"Look!" said his cousin, pointing to an elegant caleche which was
turning at that moment from the boulevard into the rue Grange-
Bateliere, "there's one of the leading danseuses whose name on the
posters attracts all Paris. That woman earns sixty thousand francs a
year and lives like a princess; the price of your manufactory all told
wouldn't suffice to buy you the privilege of bidding her good-morning
a dozen times."
"Do you see," said Bixiou, "that young man who is sitting on the front
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