| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton: moment she thought he did not know her.
"Oh, you're sick!" she exclaimed; and the sound of her voice
seemed to recall his wandering senses.
"Why, if it ain't Miss Bunner!" he said, in a low thick tone;
but he made no attempt to move, and she noticed that his face was
the colour of yellow ashes.
"You ARE sick," she persisted, emboldened by his
evident need of help. "Mr. Ramy, it was real unfriendly of you not
to let us know."
He continued to look at her with dull eyes. "I ain't been
sick," he said. "Leastways not very: only one of my old turns."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Miracle Mongers and Their Methods by Harry Houdini: the strong man having an anvil on his
breast or belly, suffers another man to
strike with a sledge hammer and forge
a piece of iron, or cut a bar cold with
chizzels) tho' it seems surprising to some
people, has nothing in it to be really
wondered at; for sustaining the anvil is
the whole matter, and the heavier the anvil
is, the less the blows are felt: And if the
anvil was but two or three times heavier
than the hammer, the strong man would
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Daughter of Eve by Honore de Balzac: the hands of God than these two girls from their mother's home when
they went to the mayor's office and the church to be married, after
receiving the simple but terrible injunction to obey in all things two
men with whom they were henceforth to live and sleep by day and by
night. To their minds, nothing could be worse in the strange houses
where they were to go than the maternal convent.
Why did the father of these poor girls, the Comte de Granville, a wise
and upright magistrate (though sometimes led away by politics),
refrain from protecting the helpless little creatures from such
crushing despotism? Alas! by mutual understanding, about ten years
after marriage, he and his wife were separated while living under one
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