| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan by Honore de Balzac: marquise. "You can talk of your ghost."
"Yes, I will," replied the princess.
CHAPTER II
DANIEL D'ARTHEZ
A few days after this conversation Blondet and Rastignac, who knew
d'Arthez, promised Madame d'Espard that they would bring him to dine
with her. This promise might have proved rash had it not been for the
name of the princess, a meeting with whom was not a matter of
indifference to the great writer.
Daniel d'Arthez, one of the rare men who, in our day, unite a noble
character with great talent, had already obtained, not all the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Virginibus Puerisque by Robert Louis Stevenson: Hampstead Hill, when in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye,
the design of the monstrous city flashes into vision - a
glittering hieroglyph many square miles in extent; and when,
to borrow and debase an image, all the evening street-lamps
burst together into song! Such is the spectacle of the
future, preluded the other day by the experiment in Pall Mall.
Star-rise by electricity, the most romantic flight of
civilisation; the compensatory benefit for an innumerable
array of factories and bankers' clerks. To the artistic
spirit exercised about Thirlmere, here is a crumb of
consolation; consolatory, at least, to such of them as look
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from An Unsocial Socialist by George Bernard Shaw: pretending."
"Well, you can guess my motive," he whispered, looking tenderly
at her.
"Such stuff and nonsense! I never heard of such a thing in my
life," said Jane, and ran away, plainly understanding that he had
disguised himself in order to obtain admission to the college and
enjoy the happiness of looking at her.
"Cursed fool that I am!" he said to himself; "I cannot act like a
rational creature for five consecutive minutes."
The servant led him to the study and announced, "The man, if you
please, ma'am."
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