| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Firm of Nucingen by Honore de Balzac: accent), danced to admiration. Her feet, omitted on the passport,
though they really might have found a place there under the heading
Distinguishing Signs, were remarkable for their small size, and for
that particular something which old-fashioned dancing masters used to
call flic-flac, a something that put you in mind of Mlle. Mars'
agreeable delivery, for all the Muses are sisters, and the dancer and
poet alike have their feet upon the earth. Isaure's feet spoke lightly
and swiftly with a clearness and precision which augured well for
things of the heart. 'Elle a duc flic-flac,' was old Marcel's highest
word of praise, and old Marcel was the dancing master that deserved
the epithet of 'the Great.' People used to say 'the Great Marcel,' as
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: by the artificial destruction of several walls between adjacent
honeycombings. The walls were rough, and the high, vaulted roof
was thick with stalactites; but the solid rock floor had been
smoothed off, and was free from all debris, detritus, or even
dust to a positively abnormal extent. Except for the avenue through
which we had come, this was true of the floors of all the great
galleries opening off from it; and the singularity of the condition
was such as to set us vainly puzzling. The curious new fetor which
had supplemented the nameless scent was excessively pungent here;
so much so that it destroyed all trace of the other. Something
about this whole place, with its polished and almost glistening
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Hermione's Little Group of Serious Thinkers by Don Marquis: so, so -- well, so ROMANTIC< somehow?
STIMULATING INFLUENCES
SCIENCE and philanthropy should go hand in
hand -- two hearts that beat as one, if you
know what I mean, and all that sort of thing.
And they do, too. We were discussing it the
other evening -- our Little Group of Serious Think-
ers, you know -- and we decided that what philan-
thropy owes to science is made up by what science
owes to philanthropy.
Isn't it wonderful how things balance like that?
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