| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: consultation this morning while you were asleep. A surgeon, a
pupil of Gall's came, and our house surgeon, and the head
physician from the Hotel-Dieu. Those gentlemen considered that
the symptoms were very unusual and interesting; the case must be
carefully watched, for it throws a light on several obscure and
rather important scientific problems. One of the authorities says
that if there is more pressure of serum on one or other portion
of the brain, it should affect his mental capacities in such and
such directions. So if he should talk, notice very carefully what
kind of ideas his mind seems to run on; whether memory, or
penetration, or the reasoning faculties are exercised; whether
 Father Goriot |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from 'Twixt Land & Sea by Joseph Conrad: of her came to him only as a dreadful and confused murmur through
the loud thumping of blood in his ears, while she held on. She ran
upright in a terrible display of her gift of speed, with an
incomparable air of life and grace. She ran on till the smooth
level of water in front of her bows seemed to sink down suddenly as
if sucked away; and, with a strange, violent tremor of her mast-
heads she stopped, inclined her lofty spars a little, and lay
still. She lay still on the reef, while the Neptun, fetching a
wide circle, continued at full speed up Spermonde Passage, heading
for the town. She lay still, perfectly still, with something ill-
omened and unnatural in her attitude. In an instant the subtle
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Poems by Oscar Wilde: To wrangle for mean raiment, and to throw
Dice for the garments of a wretched man,
Not knowing the God's wonder, or His woe?
Poem: The New Remorse
The sin was mine; I did not understand.
So now is music prisoned in her cave,
Save where some ebbing desultory wave
Frets with its restless whirls this meagre strand.
And in the withered hollow of this land
Hath Summer dug herself so deep a grave,
That hardly can the leaden willow crave
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