| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Arizona Nights by Stewart Edward White: got idle and haughty, just like folks. Then come race suicide.
They got to feelin' so aristocratic the hens wouldn't have no
eggs."
Nobody dared say a word.
"Windy Bill's snake--" began the narrator genially.
"Stranger," broke in Windy Bill, with great emphasis, "as to
that snake, I want you to understand this: yereafter in my
estimation that snake is nothin' but an ornery angleworm!"
PART II
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad: to me that there had been pretty stormy days in the professor's
house, but - here they are. I have a notion she isn't the kind of
everyday young lady who may be permitted to gallop about the world
all by herself - eh? Well, I think it rather fine of her, but I
quite understand that the professor needed all his philosophy under
the circumstances. She is his only child now - and brilliant -
what? Willie positively spluttered trying to describe her to me;
and I could see directly you came in that you had an uncommon
experience."
Renouard, with an irritated gesture, tilted his hat more forward on
his eyes, as though he were bored. The Editor went on with the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Maitre Cornelius by Honore de Balzac: "Pasques-Dieu! and such treasure!" cried the king.
"Where is it?" asked Cornelius, who, by a singular provision of
nature, heard the remarks of the king and his physician, while
continuing himself almost torpid with thought and the shock of this
singular misfortune.
"Ha!" cried Coyctier, bursting into a diabolical, coarse laugh,
"somnambulists never remember on their waking what they have done when
asleep."
"Leave us," said the king.
When Louis XI. was alone with his silversmith, he looked at him and
chuckled coldly.
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