| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Cruise of the Jasper B. by Don Marquis: Abernethy, glancing over the hulk, "if she was fixed up she could
be sailed anywheres--anywheres!"
"What would you call her--a schooner?"
"This here Goldberg," said Mr. Abernethy, "has his office over
town right accost from the railroad depot."
And with that he put his fishing pole over his shoulder and
prepared to leave--a tall, strong-looking old man with long legs
and knotty wrists, who moved across the deck with surprising
spryness. At the gangplank he sang out without turning his head:
"As far as my bein' a skipper's concerned, they's no law agin'
callin' me Cap'n Abernethy if you want to. I come of a seafarin'
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan by Honore de Balzac: difference of characters, temperaments, attachments, situations. I,
for example, at this moment, after twenty years of misfortunes, of
deceptions, of calumnies endured, and weary days and hollow pleasures,
is it not natural that I should incline to fall at the feet of a man
who would love me sincerely and forever? And yet, the world would
condemn me. But twenty years of suffering might well excuse a few
brief years which may still remain to me of youth given to a sacred
and real love. This will not happen. I am not so rash as to sacrifice
my hopes of heaven. I have borne the burden and heat of the day, I
shall finish my course and win my recompense."
"Angel!" thought d'Arthez.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Duchesse de Langeais by Honore de Balzac: ranks below them. Equality may be a RIGHT, but no power on earth
can convert it into FACT. It would be a good thing for France if
this idea could be popularised. The benefits of political
harmony are obvious to the least intelligent classes. Harmony
is, as it were, the poetry of order, and order is a matter of
vital importance to the working population. And what is order,
reduced to its simplest expression, but the agreement of things
among themselves--unity, in short? Architecture, music, and
poetry, everything in France, and in France more than in any
other country, is based upon this principle; it is written upon
the very foundations of her clear accurate language, and a
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