| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Gobseck by Honore de Balzac: courts of justice.'
" 'Quite so.'
" 'This gentleman here,' he added, indicating me, 'was a witness of
the sale.'
" 'That is possible.'
"The Count turned to go. Feeling the gravity of the affair, I suddenly
put in between the two belligerents.
" 'M. le Comte,' said I, 'you are right, and M. Gobseck is by no means
in the wrong. You could not prosecute the purchaser without bringing
your wife into court, and the whole of the odium would not fall on
her. I am an attorney, and I owe it to myself, and still more to my
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Paz by Honore de Balzac: "Why don't you tell me something good of Adam?" cried Clementine
suddenly. "Tell me that he is not volatile, you who know him so well."
The cry was fine.
"Now is the time," thought poor Paz, "to put an insurmountable barrier
between us. Tell you good of Adam?" he said aloud. "I love him; you
would not believe me; and I am incapable of telling you harm. My
position is very difficult between you."
Clementine lowered her head and looked down at the tips of his
varnished boots.
"You Northern men have nothing but physical courage," she said
complainingly; "you have no constancy in your opinions."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from 1984 by George Orwell: difficult. A few agents of the Thought Police moved always among them,
spreading false rumours and marking down and eliminating the few
individuals who were judged capable of becoming dangerous; but no attempt
was made to indoctrinate them with the ideology of the Party. It was not
desirable that the proles should have strong political feelings. All that
was required of them was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to
whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working-hours or
shorter rations. And even when they became discontented, as they sometimes
did, their discontent led nowhere, because being without general ideas,
they could only focus it on petty specific grievances. The larger evils
invariably escaped their notice. The great majority of proles did not even
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