| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: ambitions; we are connected with the Beauseants, and we go afoot
through the streets; we want to be rich, and we have not a penny;
we eat Mme. Vauquer's messes, and we like grand dinners in the
Faubourg Saint-Germain; we sleep on a truckle-bed, and dream of a
mansion! I do not blame you for wanting these things. What sort
of men do the women run after? Men of ambition. Men of ambition
have stronger frames, their blood is richer in iron, their hearts
are warmer than those of ordinary men. Women feel that when their
power is greatest, they look their best, and that those are their
happiest hours; they like power in men, and prefer the strongest
even if it is a power that may be their own destruction. I am
Father Goriot |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie: "What day was it when you searched the prisoner's room?"
"Tuesday, the 24th of July."
"Exactly a week after the tragedy?"
"Yes."
"You found these two objects, you say, in the chest of drawers.
Was the drawer unlocked?"
"Yes."
"Does it not strike you as unlikely that a man who had committed
a crime should keep the evidence of it in an unlocked drawer for
anyone to find?"
"He might have stowed them there in a hurry."
The Mysterious Affair at Styles |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: eius voluntate id sibi facere liceat. Caesar, quod memoria tenebat
L. Cassium consulem occisum exercitumque eius ab Helvetiis pulsum et sub
iugum missum, concedendum non putabat; neque homines inimico animo, data
facultate per provinciam itineris faciundi, temperaturos ab iniuria et
maleficio existimabat. Tamen, ut spatium intercedere posset dum milites
quos imperaverat convenirent, legatis respondit diem se ad deliberandum
sumpturum: si quid vellent, ad Id. April. reverterentur.
Interea ea legione quam secum habebat militibusque, qui ex provincia
convenerant, a lacu Lemanno, qui in flumen Rhodanum influit, ad montem
Iuram, qui fines Sequanorum ab Helvetiis dividit, milia passuum XVIIII
murum in altitudinem pedum sedecim fossamque perducit. Eo opere perfecto
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