| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Some Reminiscences by Joseph Conrad: buttons on our coats, was disabled by a kick on the shoulder.
Both remorse and gratitude seemed foreign to Almayer's character.
He mumbled:
"Do you mean that pirate fellow?"
"What pirate fellow? The man has been in the ship eleven years,"
I said indignantly.
"It's his looks," Almayer muttered for all apology.
The sun had eaten up the fog. From where we sat under the after
awning we could see in the distance the pony tied up in front of
Almayer's house, to a post of the verandah. We were silent for a
long time. All at once Almayer, alluding evidently to the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pierrette by Honore de Balzac: seraphic perfection of young girls and young men marked with the
hectic of death, is a wonderful fact worthy of the attention alike of
philosophers and of heedless minds. He who has ever seen one of these
sublime departures from this life can never remain, or become, an
unbeliever. Such beings exhale, as it were, a celestial fragrance;
their glances speak of God; the voices are eloquent in the simplest
words; often they ring like some seraphic instrument revealing the
secrets of the future. When Monsieur Martener praised her for having
faithfully followed a harsh prescription the little angel replied, and
with what a glance!--
"I want to live, dear Monsieur Martener; but less for myself than for
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: could scarce repress.
Presently the boy took a ball from his tunic, and,
pointing at a little bush near them, said, "Stand you
there, Lady Maud, by yonder bush, I would play at
toss."
The young woman did as she was bid, and when she
had taken her place and turned to face him the boy
threw the ball to her. Thus they played beneath the
windows of the armory, the boy running blithely after
the ball when he missed it, and laughing and shouting
in happy glee when he made a particularly good catch.
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