| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Octopus by Frank Norris: was ceasing to bite.
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"These stuffed artichokes are delicious, Mrs. Gerard," murmured
young Lambert, wiping his lips with a corner of his napkin.
"Pardon me for mentioning it, but your dinner must be my excuse."
"And this asparagus--since Mr. Lambert has set the bad example,"
observed Mrs. Cedarquist, "so delicate, such an exquisite
flavour. How do you manage?"
"We get all our asparagus from the southern part of the State,
from one particular ranch," explained Mrs. Gerard. "We order it
by wire and get it only twenty hours after cutting. My husband
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Seraphita by Honore de Balzac: better light, unconsciously showing as she did so the beauty of her
waist and bust. She was already dressed for the night in a long robe
of white cotton; a cambric cap, without other ornament than a frill of
the same, confined her hair. Though evidently plunged in some inward
meditation, she counted without a mistake the threads of her napkins
or the meshes of her socks. Sitting thus, she presented the most
complete image, the truest type, of the woman destined for terrestrial
labor, whose glance may piece the clouds of the sanctuary while her
thought, humble and charitable, keeps her ever on the level of man.
Wilfrid had flung himself into a chair between the two tables and was
contemplating with a species of intoxication this picture full of
Seraphita |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert: "Come, return! You will use your horsemen to beat down their infantry
between your elephants and mine. Courage! exterminate them!"
And Narr' Havas was rushing away when Salammbo appeared.
She leaped down quickly from her horse. She opened her ample cloak and
spreading out her arms displayed the zaimph.
The leathern tent, which was raised at the corners, left visible the
entire circuit of the mountain with its thronging soldiers, and as it
was in the centre Salammbo could be seen on all sides. An immense
shouting burst forth, a long cry of triumph and hope. Those who were
marching stopped; the dying leaned on their elbows and turned round to
bless her. All the Barbarians knew now that she had recovered the
Salammbo |
