| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Unconscious Comedians by Honore de Balzac: of an ex-portress. With her was a slim little girl, whose eyes,
fringed with black lashes, had lost their innocence and showed great
weariness; her face, of a pretty shape, was fresh and her hair
abundant, her forehead charming but audacious, her bust thin,--in
other words, an unripe fruit.
"That," replied Bixiou, "is a rat tied to its mother."
"A rat!--what's that?"
"That particular rat," said Leon, with a friendly nod to Mademoiselle
Ninette, "may perhaps win your suit for you."
Gazonal bounded; but Bixiou had held him by the arm ever since they
left the cafe, thinking perhaps that the flush on his face was rather
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Muse of the Department by Honore de Balzac: opinion, showed strong judgment.
"Well, madame, we must be lenient, we have but twenty pages out of a
thousand," said Bianchon, looking at Mademoiselle Gorju, whose figure
threatened terrible things after the birth of her first child.
"Well, Monsieur de Clagny," said Lousteau, "we were talking yesterday
of the forms of revenge invented by husbands. What do you say to those
invented by wives?"
"I say," replied the Public Prosecutor, "that the romance is not by a
Councillor of State, but by a woman. For extravagant inventions the
imagination of women far outdoes that of men; witness /Frankenstein/
by Mrs. Shelley, /Leone Leoni/ by George Sand, the works of Anne
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson: community indulges in a plan. But, in the meanwhile, all the
life and most of the houses of Calistoga are concentrated
upon that street between the railway station and the road. I
never heard it called by any name, but I will hazard a guess
that it is either Washington or Broadway. Here are the
blacksmith's, the chemist's, the general merchant's, and Kong
Sam Kee, the Chinese laundryman's; here, probably, is the
office of the local paper (for the place has a paper - they
all have papers); and here certainly is one of the hotels,
Cheeseborough's, whence the daring Foss, a man dear to
legend, starts his horses for the Geysers.
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