| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Odyssey by Homer: She then went quickly on, and Telemachus followed in her steps
till they reached the place where the guilds of the Pylian
people were assembled. There they found Nestor sitting with his
sons, while his company round him were busy getting dinner
ready, and putting pieces of meat on to the spits {26} while
other pieces were cooking. When they saw the strangers they
crowded round them, took them by the hand and bade them take
their places. Nestor's son Pisistratus at once offered his hand
to each of them, and seated them on some soft sheepskins that
were lying on the sands near his father and his brother
Thrasymedes. Then he gave them their portions of the inward
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Recruit by Honore de Balzac: had a tale to tell that was more or less probable; and each expected
to turn to his own profit the secret event which he thus recounted.
The public prosecutor imagined a whole drama to result in the return
by night of Madame de Dey's son, the emigre. The mayor was convinced
that a priest who refused the oath had arrived from La Vendee and
asked for asylum; but the day being Friday, the purchase of a hare
embarrassed the good mayor not a little. The judge of the district
court held firmly to the theory of a Chouan leader or a body of
Vendeans hotly pursued. Others were convinced that the person thus
harbored was a noble escaped from the Paris prisons. In short, they
all suspected the countess of being guilty of one of those
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: soldiery. So much had been written and said on either side
concerning the form of church government, that it had become a
matter of infinitely more consequence in the eyes of the
multitude than the doctrines of that gospel which both churches
had embraced. The Prelatists and Presbyterians of the more
violent kind became as illiberal as the Papists, and would
scarcely allow the possibility of salvation beyond the pale of
their respective churches. It was in vain remarked to these
zealots, that had the Author of our holy religion considered any
peculiar form of church government as essential to salvation, it
would have been revealed with the same precision as under the Old
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