| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pierre Grassou by Honore de Balzac: works of sculpture and painting, such as it has been since the
revolution of 1830, have you not been seized by a sense of uneasiness,
weariness, sadness, at the sight of those long and over-crowded
galleries? Since 1830, the true Salon no longer exists. The Louvre has
again been taken by assault,--this time by a populace of artists who
have maintained themselves in it.
In other days, when the Salon presented only the choicest works of
art, it conferred the highest honor on the creations there exhibited.
Among the two hundred selected paintings, the public could still
choose: a crown was awarded to the masterpiece by hands unseen. Eager,
impassioned discussions arose about some picture. The abuse showered
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Spirit of the Border by Zane Grey: face. It belonged to that white man, that awful white man! I never saw him
before; but I knew him."
"Girty!" said Heckewelder, who had come in with his quiet step. "He looked in
at the window. Calm yourself, Nellie. The renegade has gone."
The incident worried them all at the time, and made Nell nervous for several
days; but as Girty had disappeared, and nothing more was heard of him,
gradually they forgot. Kate's wedding day dawned with all the little party
well and happy. Early in the afternoon Jim and Nell, accompanied by Kate and
her lover, started out into the woods just beyond the clearing for the purpose
of gathering wild flowers to decorate the cabin.
"We are both thinking of--him," Jim said, after he and Nell had walked some
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: hostibus visa est, circiter CCXX naves eorum paratissimae atque omni
genere armorum ornatissimae profectae ex portu nostris adversae
constiterunt; neque satis Bruto, qui classi praeerat, vel tribunis militum
centurionibusque, quibus singulae naves erant attributae, constabat quid
agerent aut quam rationem pugnae insisterent. Rostro enim noceri non
posse cognoverant; turribus autem excitatis tamen has altitudo puppium ex
barbaris navibus superabat, ut neque ex inferiore loco satis commode tela
adigi possent et missa a Gallis gravius acciderent. Una erat magno usui
res praeparata a nostris, falces praeacutae insertae adfixaeque longuriis,
non absimili forma muralium falcium. His cum funes qui antemnas ad malos
destinabant comprehensi adductique erant, navigio remis incitato
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