| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Paz by Honore de Balzac: young men of the day began to remark her. In fact, before long Malaga
was very much talked about in the questionable world of equivocal
women, who presently attacked her good fortune by calumnies. They said
she was a somnambulist, and the Pole was a magnetizer who was using
her to discover the philosopher's stone. Some even more envenomed
scandals drove her to a curiosity that was greater than Psyche's. She
reported them in tears to Paz.
"When I want to injure a woman," she said in conclusion, "I don't
calumniate her; I don't declare that some one magnetizes her to get
stones out of her, but I say plainly that she is humpbacked, and I
prove it. Why do you compromise me in this way?"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed by Edna Ferber: is trembling. I can hear it quite plainly. What has
happened? Has Norah written--"
"Norah? No. There was nothing in her letter to
upset me. It is only the strangeness of this place. I
shall be all right in a day or so."
"The new home--it is satisfactory? You have found
what you wanted? Your room is comfortable?"
"It's--it's a large room," I faltered. "And there's
a--a large view of the lake, too."
There was a smothered sound at the other end of the
wire. Then--"I want you to meet me down-town at seven
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: DEU 28:48 Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall
send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in
want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until
he have destroyed thee.
DEU 28:49 The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the
end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue
thou shalt not understand;
DEU 28:50 A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the
person of the old, nor shew favour to the young:
DEU 28:51 And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of
thy land, until thou be destroyed: which also shall not leave thee
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