| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Start in Life by Honore de Balzac: air of great simplicity.
"Is the morality of courts where you got those decorations of yours
any better?" said Schinner, recovering his self-possession, upset for
the moment by finding out how much the count knew of Schinner's life
as an artist.
"I never asked for any of my orders," said the count. "I believe I
have loyally earned them."
"'A fair yield and no flavor,'" said Mistigris.
The count was resolved not to betray himself; he assumed an air of
good-humored interest in the country, and looked up the valley of
Groslay as the coucou took the road to Saint-Brice, leaving that to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells: himself. "This getting out of one's individuality--this
conscious getting out of one's individuality--is one of the
most important and interesting aspects of the psychology of
the new age that is now dawning. As compared with any
previous age. Unconsciously, of course, every true artist,
every philosopher, every scientific investigator, so far as
his art or thought went, has always got out of himself,--has
forgotten his personal interests and become Man thinking for
the whole race. And intimations of the same thing have been
at the heart of most religions. But now people are beginning
to get this detachment without any distinctively religious
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Art of Writing by Robert Louis Stevenson: phrase is a period of repose, almost ugly in itself, both S
and R still audible, and B given as the last fulfilment of
PVF. In the next four phrases, from 'that never' down to
'run for,' the mask is thrown off, and, but for a slight
repetition of the F and V, the whole matter turns, almost too
obtrusively, on S and R; first S coming to the front, and
then R. In the concluding phrase all these favourite
letters, and even the flat A, a timid preference for which is
just perceptible, are discarded at a blow and in a bundle;
and to make the break more obvious, every word ends with a
dental, and all but one with T, for which we have been
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