| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Ann Veronica by H. G. Wells: I've been smoking cigarettes in the preparation-room and thinking
this out. We can't be lovers in the ordinary sense, but we can
be great and intimate friends."
"We are," said Ann Veronica.
"You've interested me enormously. . . ."
He paused with a sense of ineptitude. "I want to be your
friend," he said. "I said that at the Zoo, and I mean it. Let
us be friends--as near and close as friends can be."
Ann Veronica gave him a pallid profile.
"What is the good of pretending?" she said.
"We don't pretend."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Two Poets by Honore de Balzac: Sapience. So David learned his trade, and completed his education at
the same time, and Didot's foreman became a scholar; and yet when he
left Paris at the end of 1819, summoned home by his father to take the
helm of business, he had not cost his parent a farthing.
Now Nicolas Sechard's establishment hitherto had enjoyed a monopoly of
all the official printing in the department, besides the work of the
prefecture and the diocese--three connections which should prove
mighty profitable to an active young printer; but precisely at this
juncture the firm of Cointet Brothers, paper manufacturers, applied to
the authorities for the second printer's license in Angouleme.
Hitherto old Sechard had contrived to reduce this license to a dead
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Rig Veda: to the
ripened grain approach the sickle.
4 Wise, through desire of bliss from Gods, the skilful bind
the traces
fast, And lay the yokes on either side.
5 Arrange the buckets in their place securely fasten on the
straps.
We will pour forth the well that hath a copious stream, fair-flowing
well that never fails.
6 I pour the water from the well with pails prepared and goodly
straps,
The Rig Veda |
