| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Sylvie and Bruno by Lewis Carroll: Elfland that's nearly a month ago. They sent two ambassadors, to make
sure that their invitation to me, to be their new King, should reach me.
One was a Prince; so he was able to come by the Royal Road,
and to come invisibly to all but me: the other was a Baron;
so he had to come by the common road, and I dare say he hasn't even
arrived yet."
"Then how far have we come?" Sylvie enquired.
"Just a thousand miles, sweet one, since the Gardener unlocked that
door for you."
"A thousand miles!" Bruno repeated. "And may I eat one?"
"Eat a mile, little rogue?"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Vendetta by Honore de Balzac: dragged him suddenly, with a desperate sort of energy, from her
father's house, and did not leave him till she saw him reach the house
where Servin had engaged a modest lodging.
By the time she reached home, Ginevra had attained to that serenity
which is caused by a firm resolution; no sign in her manner betrayed
uneasiness. She turned on her father and mother, whom she found in the
act of sitting down to dinner, a glance of exceeding gentleness devoid
of hardihood. She saw that her mother had been weeping; the redness of
those withered eyelids shook her heart, but she hid her emotion. No
one touched the dinner which was served to them. A horror of food is
one of the chief symptoms which reveal a great crisis in life. All
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Enemies of Books by William Blades: " 11 " 40 " | " 69 " 0 "
It is curious to notice how the holes, rapidly at first,
and then slowly and more slowly, disappear. You trace
the same hole leaf after leaf, until suddenly the size becomes
in one leaf reduced to half its normal diameter, and a close
examination will show a small abrasion of the paper in the next
leaf exactly where the hole would have come if continued.
In the book quoted it is just as if there had been a race.
In the first ten leaves the weak worms are left behind;
in the second ten there are still forty-eight eaters;
these are reduced to thirty-one in the third ten, and to only
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