| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Facino Cane by Honore de Balzac: detained me for a moment, and at once I passed beyond and through
them. I could enter into the life of the human creatures whom I
watched, just as the dervish in the /Arabian Nights/ could pass into
any soul or body after pronouncing a certain formula.
If I met a working man and his wife in the streets between eleven
o'clock and midnight on their way home from the Ambigu Comique, I used
to amuse myself by following them from the Boulevard du Pont aux Choux
to the Boulevard Beaumarchais. The good folk would begin by talking
about the play; then from one thing to another they would come to
their own affairs, and the mother would walk on and on, heedless of
complaints or question from the little one that dragged at her hand,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: high. Before the dead were buried, while the wounded yet lay in
pain and fever, cowardly accusations of cowardice were levelled at
the German blue-jackets. It was said they had broken and run
before their enemies, and that they had huddled helpless like sheep
in the plantation house. Small wonder if they had; small wonder
had they been utterly destroyed. But the fact was heroically
otherwise; and these dastard calumnies cut to the blood. They are
not forgotten; perhaps they will never be forgiven.
In the meanwhile, events were pressing towards a still more
trenchant opposition. On the 20th, the three consuls met and
parted without agreement, Knappe announcing that he had lost men
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Redheaded Outfield by Zane Grey: for a fast man. But the best Rube could do was
to reach third base. This was certainly good
enough, as the bleachers loudly proclaimed, and
another tally for us seemed sure.
McCall bunted toward third, another of his
teasers. The Rube would surely have scored had
he started with the ball, but he did not try and
missed a chance. Wiler, of course, held the ball,
and Mac got to first without special effort. He
went down on the first pitch. Then Ash lined to
Carl. The Rube waited till the ball was caught
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