| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Horse's Tale by Mark Twain: would not be comfortable."
"I wish I was going, Antonio. There's two things I'd give a lot to
see. One's a railroad."
"She'll see one when she strikes Missouri."
"The other's a bull-fight."
"I've seen lots of them; I wish I could see another."
"I don't know anything about it, except in a mixed-up, foggy way,
Antonio, but I know enough to know it's grand sport."
"The grandest in the world! There's no other sport that begins
with it. I'll tell you what I've seen, then you can judge. It was
my first, and it's as vivid to me now as it was when I saw it. It
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Hated Son by Honore de Balzac: had suddenly become the representative of both branches of the Saint-
Savin family. Necessity and terror were the causes which led to this
union. At a banquet given, two months after the marriage, to the Comte
and Comtesse d'Herouville, a discussion arose on a topic which in
those days of ignorance was thought amusing: namely, the legitimacy of
children coming into the world ten months after the death of their
fathers, or seven months after the wedding day.
"Madame," said the count brutally, turning to his wife, "if you give
me a child ten months after my death, I cannot help it; but be careful
that you are not brought to bed in seven months!"
"What would you do then, old bear?" asked the young Marquis de
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad: and he told me the story roughly in brusque, disconnected sentences.
I needed no more. I saw it all going on as though I were myself inside
that other sleeping suit.
"It happened while we were setting a reefed foresail, at dusk.
Reefed foresail! You understand the sort of weather. The only sail we
had left to keep the ship running; so you may guess what it had been
like for days. Anxious sort of job, that. He gave me some of his cursed
insolence at the sheet. I tell you I was overdone with this terrific weather
that seemed to have no end to it. Terrific, I tell you--and a deep ship.
I believe the fellow himself was half crazed with funk. It was no time
for gentlemanly reproof, so I turned round and felled him like an ox.
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