| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Odyssey by Homer: any one who would send him. As soon as he came he began to
insult Ulysses, and to try and drive him out of his own house.
"Be off, old man," he cried, "from the doorway, or you shall be
dragged out neck and heels. Do you not see that they are all
giving me the wink, and wanting me to turn you out by force,
only I do not like to do so? Get up then, and go of yourself, or
we shall come to blows."
Ulysses frowned on him and said, "My friend, I do you no manner
of harm; people give you a great deal, but I am not jealous.
There is room enough in this doorway for the pair of us, and you
need not grudge me things that are not yours to give. You seem
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Juana by Honore de Balzac: had climbed the walls of the garden, and guarded all exit in that
direction.
"Monsieur," said Juana, "you cannot escape. The whole town is here."
Diard ran from window to window with the useless activity of a captive
bird striking against the panes to escape. Juana stood silent and
thoughtful.
"Juana, dear Juana, help me! give me, for pity's sake, some advice."
"Yes," said Juana, "I will; and I will save you."
"Ah! you are always my good angel."
Juana left the room and returned immediately, holding out to Diard,
with averted head, one of his own pistols. Diard did not take it.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Country Doctor by Honore de Balzac: defenders, and to remove from among the people the men of energy who
incite the masses to insurrection. By opening out in this way to the
public ambition paths that are at once difficult and easy, easy for
strong wills, difficult for weak or imperfect ones, a State averts the
perils of the revolutions caused by the struggles of men of superior
powers to rise to their proper level. Our long agony of forty years
should have made it clear to any man who has brains that social
superiorities are a natural outcome of the order of things. They are
of three kinds that cannot be questioned--the superiority of the
thinker, the superiority of the politician, the superiority of wealth.
Is not that as much as to say, genius, power, and money, or, in yet
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