| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Ursula by Honore de Balzac: house, and went to the inn accompanied by La Bougival, who carried the
package, by Monsieur Bongrand, who gave her his arm, and by Savinien,
her true protector.
Thus it happened that in spite of all his efforts and cautions the
worst fears of the justice of peace were realized; he was now to see
Ursula without means and at the mercy of her benefactor's heirs.
The next afternoon the whole town attended the doctor's funeral. When
the conduct of the heirs to his adopted daughter was publicly known, a
vast majority of the people thought it natural and necessary. An
inheritance was involved; the good man was known to have hoarded;
Ursula might think she had rights; the heirs were only defending their
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Life of the Spider by J. Henri Fabre: stretched like a thin curtain, form a canopy above the nest and,
with the curved tips of the leaves, frame a sort of alcove wherein
the mother takes up her abode.
It is more than a place of rest after the fatigues of her
confinement: it is a guard-room, an inspection-post where the
mother remains sprawling until the youngsters' exodus. Greatly
emaciated by the laying of her eggs and by her expenditure of silk,
she lives only for the protection of her nest.
Should some vagrant pass near by, she hurries from her watch-tower,
lifts a limb and puts the intruder to flight. If I tease her with
a straw, she parries with big gestures, like those of a prize-
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy: cell for a long time, sat down on his bed. He felt
he could not struggle any more; the black demons
had overpowered him, and he had to submit. For
some time he had been looking at the funnel of the
oven. If he could fix on the knob of its lid a loop
made of thin shreds of narrow linen straps it
would hold. . . . But he would have to man-
age it very cleverly. He set to work, and spent
two days in making straps out of the linen bag on
which he slept. When the guard came into the
cell he covered the bed with his overcoat. He
The Forged Coupon |
