| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Main Street by Sinclair Lewis: She followed a furrow between low wheat blades and a field of
rye which showed silver lights as it flowed before the wind.
She found a pasture by the lake. So sprinkled was the pasture
with rag-baby blossoms and the cottony herb of Indian tobacco
that it spread out like a rare old Persian carpet of cream
and rose and delicate green. Under her feet the rough grass
made a pleasant crunching. Sweet winds blew from the sunny
lake beside her, and small waves sputtered on the meadowy
shore. She leaped a tiny creek bowered in pussy-willow buds.
She was nearing a frivolous grove of birch and poplar and
wild plum trees.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Eve and David by Honore de Balzac: your father, my David, is quite inexorable! Let us bear it in
silence."
A discreet rapping at the door cut short some word of love on David's
lips. Marion appeared, towing the big, burly Kolb after her across the
outer room.
"Madame," said Marion, "we have known, Kolb and I, that you and the
master were very much put about; and as we have eleven hundred francs
of savings between us, we thought we could not do better than put them
in the mistress' hands----"
"Die misdress," echoed Kolb fervently.
"Kolb," cried David, "you and I will never part. Pay a thousand francs
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: have been affected by the shape of the horns of either parent. For the
welfare of a very young animal, as long as it remains in its mother's womb,
or in the egg, or as long as it is nourished and protected by its parent,
it must be quite unimportant whether most of its characters are fully
acquired a little earlier or later in life. It would not signify, for
instance, to a bird which obtained its food best by having a long beak,
whether or not it assumed a beak of this particular length, as long as it
was fed by its parents. Hence, I conclude, that it is quite possible, that
each of the many successive modifications, by which each species has
acquired its present structure, may have supervened at a not very early
period of life; and some direct evidence from our domestic animals supports
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