| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Red Inn by Honore de Balzac: wife, the two boatmen, and the servant of the Red Inn. The surgical
instrument which the murderer had used--
[Here Monsieur Taillefer coughed, drew out his handkerchief to blow
his nose, and wiped his forehead. These perfectly natural motions were
noticed by me only; the other guests sat with their eyes fixed on
Monsieur Hermann, to whom they were listening with a sort of avidity.
The purveyor leaned his elbow on the table, put his head into his
right hand and gazed fixedly at Hermann. From that moment he showed no
other sign of emotion or interest, but his face remained passive and
ghastly, as it was when I first saw him playing with the stopper of
the decanter.]
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: concert with a whole civilised nation, there are surely a
majority of chances that we must be acting right. And again,
how true it is that we can never behave as we wish in this
tormented sphere, and can only aspire to different and more
favourable circumstances, in order to stand out and be
ourselves wholly and rightly! And yet once more, if in the
hurry and pressure of affairs and passions you tend to nod
and become drowsy, here are twenty-four hours of Sunday set
apart for you to hold counsel with your soul and look around
you on the possibilities of life.
This is not, of course, all that is to be, or even should be,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Misalliance by George Bernard Shaw: JOHNNY. Look here, Mr Percival: youre not supposed to insult my
sister.
HYPATIA. Oh, shut up, Johnny. I can take care of myself. Dont you
interfere.
JOHNNY. Oh, very well. If you choose to give yourself away like
that--to allow a man to call you unladylike and then to be unladylike,
Ive nothing more to say.
HYPATIA. I think Mr Percival is most ungentlemanly; but I wont be
protected. I'll not have my affairs interfered with by men on
pretence of protecting me. I'm not your baby. If I interfered
between you and a woman, you would soon tell me to mind my own
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