| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Letters of Two Brides by Honore de Balzac: of the veriest trifles around you, omitting nothing, not even the
sunset lights among the tall trees.
October 19th.
It was three in the afternoon when I arrived. About half-past five,
Rose came and told me that my mother had returned, so I went
downstairs to pay my respects to her.
My mother lives in a suite on the ground floor, exactly corresponding
to mine, and in the same block. I am just over her head, and the same
secret staircase serves for both. My father's rooms are in the block
opposite, but are larger by the whole of the space occupied by the
grand staircase on our side of the building. These ancestral mansions
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Burning Daylight by Jack London: winnings were two hundred and thirty thousand dollars. To Jack
Kearns, already a several-times millionaire, this loss was not
vital. But the whole community was thrilled by the size of the
stakes, and each one of the dozen correspondents in the field
sent out a sensational article.
CHAPTER XII
Despite his many sources of revenue, Daylight's pyramiding kept
him pinched for cash throughout the first winter. The
pay-gravel, thawed on bed-rock and hoisted to the surface,
immediately froze again. Thus his dumps, containing several
millions of gold, were inaccessible. Not until the returning sun
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Marie by H. Rider Haggard: name Pereira, desire that I should be killed?"
"Ow!" chuckled the obese old ruffian; "cannot you with all your
cleverness guess that, O Macumazahn? Perhaps it is he who needs the
tall white maiden, and not I. Perhaps if he does certain things for me,
I have promised her to him in payment. And perhaps," he added, laughing
quite loud, "I shall trick him after all, keeping her for myself, and
paying him in another way, for can a cheat grumble if he is
out-cheated?"
I answered that I was an honest man, and knew nothing about cheats, or
at what they could or could not grumble.
"Yes, Macumazahn," replied Dingaan quite genially. "That is where you
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