| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wife, et al by Anton Chekhov: "_Repetitia est mater studiorum_," said Sobol, hastening to drink
off another wineglassful. "Would you believe it, the joy of
seeing good people has driven away my sleepiness? I have turned
into a peasant, a savage in the wilds; I've grown coarse, but I
am still an educated man, and I tell you in good earnest, it's
tedious without company."
They served first for a cold course white sucking-pig with
horse-radish cream, then a rich and very hot cabbage soup with
pork on it, with boiled buckwheat, from which rose a column of
steam. The doctor went on talking, and I was soon convinced that
he was a weak, unfortunate man, disorderly in external life.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Eve and David by Honore de Balzac: that moment Marion rushed in.
"Madame," she panted, "here they are! Here they are!"
"Who is here?"
"Doublon and his men, bad luck to them! Kolb will not let them come
in; they have come to sell us up."
"No, no, they are not going to sell you up, never fear," cried a voice
in the next room, and Petit-Claud appeared upon the scene. "I have
just lodged notice of appeal. We ought not to sit down under a
judgment that attaches a stigma of bad faith to us. I did not think it
worth while to fight the case here. I let Cachan talk to gain time for
you; I am sure of gaining the day at Poitiers----"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Children of the Night by Edwin Arlington Robinson: And the long fall wind on the lake.
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To get at the eternal strength of things,
And fearlessly to make strong songs of it,
Is, to my mind, the mission of that man
The world would call a poet. He may sing
But roughly, and withal ungraciously;
But if he touch to life the one right chord
Wherein God's music slumbers, and awake
To truth one drowsed ambition, he sings well.
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