| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Commission in Lunacy by Honore de Balzac: lost my historical fortune, and all the distinctions which I might
have acquired and bequeathed to my children; but our house will have
lost nothing; my boys will be men of mark. Though I have missed the
senatorship, they will win it nobly by devoting themselves to the
affairs of the country, and doing such service as is not soon
forgotten. While purifying the past record of my family, I have
insured it a glorious future; and is not that to have achieved a noble
task, though in secret and without glory?--And now, monsieur, have you
any other explanations to ask me?"
At this instant the tramp of horses was heard in the courtyard.
"Here they are!" said the Marquis. In a moment the two lads,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald: and you don't know what you're saying. You'd better try and sit quiet
till morning."
"He murdered her."
"It was an accident, George."
Wilson shook his head. His eyes narrowed and his mouth widened slightly
with the ghost of a superior "Hm!"
"I know," he said definitely, "I'm one of these trusting fellas and I
don't think any harm to nobody, but when I get to know a thing I know
it. It was the man in that car. She ran out to speak to him and he
wouldn't stop."
Michaelis had seen this too, but it hadn't occurred to him that there was
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Oakdale Affair by Edgar Rice Burroughs: in the mud of the pathway--the irregular outlines of an
enormous, naked, human foot--a great, uncouth foot that
bespoke a monster of another world. While, still more
uncanny, in view of what they had heard in the farm
house during the previous night, there lay, sometimes
partially obliterated by the footprints of the THING,
the impress of a small, bare foot--a woman's or a child's
--and over both an irregular scoring that might have
been wrought by a dragging chain!
In the loft of his father's hay barn Willie Case delved
deep into the small red-covered volume, HOW TO BE
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