| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Vicar of Tours by Honore de Balzac: of true affection; but all the same, when he first heard of his
illness, and when he sat by his bed to keep him company, there arose
in the depths of his consciousness, in spite of himself, a crowd of
thoughts the simple formula of which was always, "If Chapeloud dies I
can have this apartment." And yet--Birotteau having an excellent
heart, contracted ideas, and a limited mind--he did not go so far as
to think of means by which to make his friend bequeath to him the
library and the furniture.
The Abbe Chapeloud, an amiable, indulgent egoist, fathomed his
friend's desires--not a difficult thing to do--and forgave them; which
may seem less easy to a priest; but it must be remembered that the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Beauty and The Beast by Bayard Taylor: of its meaning. Many of the words were abbreviated, and there were
some arbitrary signs. It ran over a period of about four months,
terminating six weeks before the man's death. He had been
wandering about the country during this period, sleeping in woods
and barns, and living principally upon milk. The condition of his
pulse and other physical functions was scrupulously set down,
with an occasional remark of "good" or "bad." The conclusion was
at last forced upon me that he had been endeavoring to commit
suicide by a slow course of starvation and exposure. Either as the
cause or the result of this attempt, I read, in the final notes,
signs of an aberration of mind. This also explained the singular
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville: canes they make houses and ships and other things, as we have here,
making houses and ships of oak or of any other trees. And deem no
man that I say it but for a trifle, for I have seen of the canes
with mine own eyes, full many times, lying upon the river of that
lake, of the which twenty of our fellows ne might not lift up ne
bear one to the earth.
After this isle men go by sea to another isle that is clept
Calonak. And it is a fair land and a plenteous of goods. And the
king of that country hath as many wives as he will. For he maketh
search all the country to get him the fairest maidens that may be
found, and maketh them to be brought before him. And he taketh one
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