| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Maitre Cornelius by Honore de Balzac: lay close to Cornelius.
"How do you expect to earn your living with me?" said the latter.
"I have but little money," replied Philippe, "but I know good tricks
in business. If you will pay me a sou on every mark I earn for you,
that will satisfy me."
"A sou! a sou!" echoed the miser; "why, that's a good deal!"
At this moment the old sibyl returned with the key.
"Come," said Cornelius to Philippe.
The pair went out beneath the portico and mounted a spiral stone
staircase, the round well of which rose through a high turret, beside
the hall in which they had been sitting. At the first floor up the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Republic by Plato: disordered in his wits as to be at one time the slave of two seemingly
inconsistent passions, meanness, not untainted by avarice, combined with
overweening contempt of gods and men.
You are quite right, he replied.
And let us equally refuse to believe, or allow to be repeated, the tale of
Theseus son of Poseidon, or of Peirithous son of Zeus, going forth as they
did to perpetrate a horrid rape; or of any other hero or son of a god
daring to do such impious and dreadful things as they falsely ascribe to
them in our day: and let us further compel the poets to declare either
that these acts were not done by them, or that they were not the sons of
gods;--both in the same breath they shall not be permitted to affirm. We
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad: "The silence which ensued was even more dreadful. Davidson felt
sick. He tore his feet from the spot and walked straight before
him, gripping the revolver and peering into the obscurity
fearfully. Suddenly a bulky shape sprang from the ground within a
few yards of him and bounded away. Instinctively he fired at it,
started to run in pursuit, and stumbled against something soft
which threw him down headlong.
"Even as he pitched forward on his head he knew it could be nothing
else but Laughing Anne's body. He picked himself up and, remaining
on his knees, tried to lift her in his arms. He felt her so limp
that he gave it up. She was lying on her face, her long hair
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