| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Muse of the Department by Honore de Balzac: "If I stir from this spot I shall
never find it again," thought Ri-
naldo, when he had recovered his
usual presence of mind. "If I knock,
I shall be discovered. What am I
to do?"
"Who is here?" asked the voice.
"Hallo!" cried the brigand; "do
the toads here talk?"
"I am the Duke of Bracciano.
Whoever you may be, if you are not
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James: impossible, because his cell was only four feet and a half long.
In the course of all these years he never raised his hood, no
matter what the ardor of the sun or the rain's strength. He
never put on a shoe. He wore a garment of coarse sackcloth, with
nothing else upon his skin. This garment was as scant as
possible, and over it a little cloak of the same stuff. When the
cold was great he took off the cloak and opened for a while the
door and little window of his cell. Then he closed them and
resumed the mantle--his way, as he told us, of warming himself,
and making his body feel a better temperature. It was a frequent
thing with him to eat once only in three days; and when I
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Peter Pan by James M. Barrie: "That fiend!" Mr. Darling would cry, and Nana's bark was the
echo of it, but Mrs. Darling never upbraided Peter; there was
something in the right-hand corner of her mouth that wanted her
not to call Peter names.
They would sit there in the empty nursery, recalling fondly
every smallest detail of that dreadful evening. It had begun so
uneventfully, so precisely like a hundred other evenings, with
Nana putting on the water for Michael's bath and carrying him to
it on her back.
"I won't go to bed," he had shouted, like one who still
believed that he had the last word on the subject, "I won't, I
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