| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Elixir of Life by Honore de Balzac: upon me, I drink deep of life--a whole lifetime of pleasure and
of love!"
The woman who sat next to Juan Belvidero looked at him with a
feverish glitter in her eyes. She was silent. Then--"I should
need no hired bravo to kill my lover if he forsook me!" she cried
at last, and laughed, but the marvelously wrought gold comfit box
in her fingers was crushed by her convulsive clutch.
"When are you to be Grand Duke?" asked the sixth. There was the
frenzy of a Bacchante in her eyes, and her teeth gleamed between
the lips parted with a smile of cruel glee.
"Yes, when is that father of yours going to die?" asked the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: mountain would not have found their name dishonored by
these "eagles" of the highway. The high price paid for
each horse, and the tips dealt out so freely, recommended
the travelers in a special way. Perhaps the postmasters
thought it singular that, after the publication of the order,
a young man and his sister, evidently both Russians, could
travel freely across Siberia, which was closed to everyone
else, but their papers were all en regle and they had the
right to pass.
However, Michael Strogoff and Nadia were not the only
travelers on their way from Perm to Ekaterenburg. At the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Myths and Myth-Makers by John Fiske: one of these dresses, and by and by the swan-maiden came to
him shivering with cold and promising to become his wife if he
would only give her back her garment of feathers. The
ungallant fellow, however, did not care for a wife, but a
little revenge was not unsuited to his way of thinking. There
were seven robbers who used to prowl about the neighbourhood,
and who, when they got home, finding their hearts in the way,
used to hang them up on some pegs in the tent. One of these
robbers had killed the Samojed's mother; and so he promised to
return the swan-maiden's dress after she should have procured
for him these seven hearts. So she stole the hearts, and the
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