| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: drift away, and the Tartars continued to descend the Irtych.
CHAPTER XIV
MOTHER AND SON
OMSK is the official capital of Western Siberia. It is not
the most important city of the government of that name,
for Tomsk has more inhabitants and is larger. But it is
at Omsk that the Governor-General of this the first half of
Asiatic Russia resides. Omsk, properly so called, is com-
posed of two distinct towns: one which is exclusively in-
habited by the authorities and officials; the other more
especially devoted to the Siberian merchants, although, in-
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Paz by Honore de Balzac: constantly hoping she may again see Paz.
ADDENDUM
The following personages appear in other stories of the Human Comedy.
Bianchon, Horace
Father Goriot
The Atheist's Mass
Cesar Birotteau
The Commission in Lunacy
Lost Illusions
A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
A Bachelor's Establishment
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Confidence by Henry James: shoulder and proceeding to introduce his friend.
"This is the accomplished creature, Mr. Bernard Longueville,
of whom you have heard me speak. One of his accomplishments,
as you see, is to drop down from the moon."
"No, I don't drop from the moon," said Bernard, laughing.
"I drop from--Siena!" He offered his hand to Miss Vivian,
who for an appreciable instant hesitated to extend her own.
Then she returned his salutation, without any response to his
allusion to Siena.
She declined to take a seat, and said she was tired and preferred
to go home. With this suggestion her mother immediately complied,
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