| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo: Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meanings contained
in those three letters of that word: She.
It was certainly she. Marius could hardly distinguish her through
the luminous vapor which had suddenly spread before his eyes.
It was that sweet, absent being, that star which had beamed upon
him for six months; it was those eyes, that brow, that mouth,
that lovely vanished face which had created night by its departure.
The vision had been eclipsed, now it reappeared.
It reappeared in that gloom, in that garret, in that misshapen attic,
in all that horror.
Marius shuddered in dismay. What! It was she! The palpitations
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Prince of Bohemia by Honore de Balzac: " 'Is it true,' he asked, 'that Mlle. d'Orleans contributes such and
such a sum to this benevolent scheme started by her nephew? If so, it
is very gracious of her.'
"Now La Palferine had a servant, a little Savoyard, aged ten, who
waited on him without wages. La Palferine called him Father Anchises,
and used to say, 'I have never seen such a mixture of besotted
foolishness with great intelligence; he would go through fire and
water for me; he understands everything--and yet he cannot grasp the
fact that I can do nothing for him.'
"Anchises was despatched to a livery stable with instructions to hire
a handsome brougham with a man in livery behind it. By the time the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: but seemed vaguely linked with his intonation or with the internal
organs that produced the spoken sounds. His facial aspect, too,
was remarkable for its maturity; for though he shared his mother's
and grandfather's chinlessness, his firm and precociously shaped
nose united with the expression of his large, dark, almost Latin
eyes to give him an air of quasi-adulthood and well-nigh preternatural
intelligence. He was, however, exceedingly ugly despite his appearance
of brilliancy; there being something almost goatish or animalistic
about his thick lips, large-pored, yellowish skin, coarse crinkly
hair, and oddly elongated ears. He was soon disliked even more
decidedly than his mother and grandsire, and all conjectures about
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