| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from La Grenadiere by Honore de Balzac: landlord.
So Madame Willemsens was a continual mystery to people of condition.
Hers was no ordinary nature; her manners were simple and delightfully
natural, the tones of her voice were divinely sweet,--this was all
that she suffered others to discover. In her complete seclusion, her
sadness, her beauty so passionately obscured, nay, almost blighted,
there was so much to charm, that several young gentlemen fell in love;
but the more sincere the lover, the more timid he became; and besides,
the lady inspired awe, and it was a difficult matter to find enough
courage to speak to her. Finally, if a few of the bolder sort wrote to
her, their letters must have been burned unread. It was Mme.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A House of Pomegranates by Oscar Wilde: best way they could. 'Every one cannot be as beautiful as a
lizard,' they cried; 'that would be too much to expect. And,
though it sounds absurd to say so, he is really not so ugly after
all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not
look at him.' The Lizards were extremely philosophical by nature,
and often sat thinking for hours and hours together, when there was
nothing else to do, or when the weather was too rainy for them to
go out.
The Flowers, however, were excessively annoyed at their behaviour,
and at the behaviour of the birds. 'It only shows,' they said,
'what a vulgarising effect this incessant rushing and flying about
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: back on the more secure though more tedious and retarding method
of rock chipping.
Just how extensive a territory we had opened
up, it was impossible to guess without a trial. The close and
frequent connection of the different buildings made it likely
that we might cross from one to another on bridges underneath
the ice, except where impeded by local collapses and geologic
rifts, for very little glaciation seemed to have entered the massive
constructions. Almost all the areas of transparent ice had revealed
the submerged windows as tightly shuttered, as if the town had
been left in that uniform state until the glacial sheet came to
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