| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf: that he could light and smoke a cigarette, and feeling her ease,
became happy and easy himself.
"The respect that women, even well-educated, very able women,
have for men," he went on. "I believe we must have the sort of power
over you that we're said to have over horses. They see us three times
as big as we are or they'd never obey us. For that very reason,
I'm inclined to doubt that you'll ever do anything even when you
have the vote." He looked at her reflectively. She appeared very
smooth and sensitive and young. "It'll take at least six generations
before you're sufficiently thick-skinned to go into law courts
and business offices. Consider what a bully the ordinary man is,"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine: taken water and the signal for the start was given Then
O'Halloran and Bucky slipped across in the darkness to the train
and swung themselves to the platform of the last car. To Valdez,
very much against his will, had fallen the task of taking the
horses back to Agua Negra Since the track wound round the side of
the mountain in such a way as to cover five miles in making the
summit from Concho, the young Mexican had ample time to get back
to the scene of action before the train arrived.
The big Irishman and Bucky rested quietly in the shadows of the
back platform for some time. Then they entered the last car,
passed through it, and on to the next. In the sleeper they met
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Madame Firmiani by Honore de Balzac: old gentleman was careful to choose an evening when he knew that
Octave would be engaged in finishing a piece of work which was to pay
him well,--for this so-called lover of Madame Firmiani still went to
her house; a circumstance that seemed difficult to explain. As to
Octave's ruin, that, unfortunately, was no fable, as Monsieur de
Bourbonne had at once discovered.
Monsieur de Rouxellay was not at all like the provincial uncle at the
Gymnase. Formerly in the King's guard, a man of the world and a
favorite among women, he knew how to present himself in society with
the courteous manners of the olden time; he could make graceful
speeches and understand the whole Charter, or most of it. Though he
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