| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London: sun, came the notification and death of some person, man or woman, innocent of
evil, but just as much killed by us as though we had done it with our own
hands. A word from Mr. Hale and the slaughter would have ceased. But he
hardened his heart and waited, the lines deepening, the mouth and eyes growing
sterner and firmer, and the face aging with the hours. It is needless for me
to speak of my own suffering during that frightful period. Find here the
letters and telegrams of the M. of M., and the newspaper accounts, etc., of
the various murders.
You will notice also the letters warning Mr. Hale of certain machinations of
commercial enemies and secret manipulations of stock. The M. of M. seemed to
have its hand on the inner pulse of the business and financial world. They
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Daughter of Eve by Honore de Balzac: coachman, reached Florine's house. As soon as she had entered her own
apartments the actress unmasked. Madame de Vandenesse could not
restrain a quiver of surprise at Florine's beauty as she stood there
choking with anger, and superb in her wrath and jealousy.
"There is, somewhere in these rooms," said Vandenesse, "a portfolio,
the key of which you have never had; the letters are probably in it."
"Well, well, for once in my life I am bewildered; you know something
that I have been uneasy about for some days," cried Florine, rushing
into the study in search of the portfolio.
Vandenesse saw that his wife was turning pale beneath her mask.
Florine's apartment revealed more about the intimacy of the actress
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: With respect to the apparently sudden extermination of whole families or
orders, as of Trilobites at the close of the palaeozoic period and of
Ammonites at the close of the secondary period, we must remember what has
been already said on the probable wide intervals of time between our
consecutive formations; and in these intervals there may have been much
slow extermination. Moreover, when by sudden immigration or by unusually
rapid development, many species of a new group have taken possession of a
new area, they will have exterminated in a correspondingly rapid manner
many of the old inhabitants; and the forms which thus yield their places
will commonly be allied, for they will partake of some inferiority in
common.
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