| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe: the next council-day. I promised to be more orderly; and, indeed,
I found afterwards the orders made for keeping all together were
absolutely necessary for our common safety.
In two days more we passed the great China wall, made for a
fortification against the Tartars: and a very great work it is,
going over hills and mountains in an endless track, where the rocks
are impassable, and the precipices such as no enemy could possibly
enter, or indeed climb up, or where, if they did, no wall could
hinder them. They tell us its length is near a thousand English
miles, but that the country is five hundred in a straight measured
line, which the wall bounds without measuring the windings and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Illustrious Gaudissart by Honore de Balzac: my productions I will pay you such or such percentage.' Very good;
what do we do? Instantly, without reserve or hesitation, we admit him
to the great festivals of civilization as an honored guest--"
"You need wine for that," interposed the madman.
"--as an honored guest. He signs the insurance policy; he takes our
bits of paper,--scraps, rags, miserable rags!--which, nevertheless,
have more power in the world than his unaided genius. Then, if he
wants money, every one will lend it to him on those rags. At the
Bourse, among bankers, wherever he goes, even at the usurers, he will
find money because he can give security. Well, Monsieur, is not that a
great gulf to bridge over in our social system? But that is only one
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London: first time. He couldn't say it of Loraine, though. SHE certainly
had put on flesh since the day she served as model. Huh! once he
got her on trail he'd take it off. Put her on the snowshoes to
break ahead of the dogs. Never knew it to fail, yet. But his
thought leaped ahead to the palace under the lazy Mediterranean
sky--and how would it be with Loraine then? No frost, no trail,
no famine now and again to cheer the monotony, and she getting
older and piling it on with every sunrise. While this girl Freda-
-he sighed his unconscious regret that he had missed being born
under the flag of the Turk, and came back to Alaska.
"Well?" Both hands of the clock pointed perpendicularly to
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