| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Poems by T. S. Eliot: I remember a slice of lemon, and a bitten macaroon.
Hysteria
As she laughed I was aware of becoming involved in her
laughter and being part of it, until her teeth were
only accidental stars with a talent for squad-drill. I
was drawn in by short gasps, inhaled at each momentary
recovery, lost finally in the dark caverns of her
throat, bruised by the ripple of unseen muscles. An
elderly waiter with trembling hands was hurriedly
spreading a pink and white checked cloth over the rusty
green iron table, saying: "If the lady and gentleman
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Two Poets by Honore de Balzac: condemned, and Mme. de Bargeton was now on the verge of this anomalous
position.
The obstacles at the outset of a passion of this kind are alarming to
inexperience, and those in the way of the two lovers were very like
the bonds by which the population of Lilliput throttled Gulliver, a
multiplicity of nothings, which made all movement impossible, and
baffle the most vehement desires. Mme. de Bargeton, for instance, must
always be visible. If she had denied herself to visitors when Lucien
was with her, it would have been all over with her; she might as well
have run away with him at once. It is true that they sat in the
boudoir, now grown so familiar to Lucien that he felt as if he had a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: [4] Or, "where the end of the string is."
The hare makes many windings, being at a loss to find a resting-place,
and at the same time she is accustomed to deal subtly[5] in her method
of progression, because her footsteps lead perpetually to her pursuit.
[5] {tekhnazein}. Cf. Ael. "N. A." vi. 47, ap. Schneid. A fact for
Uncle Remus.
As soon as the track is clear,[6] the huntsman will push on a little
farther; and it will bring him either to some embowered spot[7] or
craggy bank; since gusts of wind will drift the snow beyond such
spots, whereby a store of couching-places[8] is reserved[9]; and that
is what puss seeks.
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