| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad: over the bushes on the dark background of forest, seemed to
quiver in the heat radiating from the steaming earth. Swarms of
yellow butterflies rose, and settled to rise again in short
flights before Reshid's half-closed eyes. From under his feet
arose the dull hum of insects in the long grass of the courtyard.
He looked on sleepily.
From one of the side paths amongst the houses a woman stepped out
on the road, a slight girlish figure walking under the shade of a
large tray balanced on its head. The consciousness of something
moving stirred Reshid's half-sleeping senses into a comparative
wakefulness. He recognised Taminah, Bulangi's slave-girl, with
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Complete Poems of Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: And meekly answered him: "Thou knowest best!
My sins as scarlet are; let me go hence,
And in some cloister's school of penitence,
Across those stones, that pave the way to heaven,
Walk barefoot, till my guilty soul be shriven!"
The Angel smiled, and from his radiant face
A holy light illumined all the place,
And through the open window, loud and clear,
They heard the monks chant in the chapel near,
Above the stir and tumult of the street:
"He has put down the mighty from their seat,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Passion in the Desert by Honore de Balzac: their insupportable luster made him shudder, especially when the
animal walked towards him. But he looked at her caressingly, staring
into her eyes in order to magnetize her, and let her come quite close
to him; then with a movement both gentle and amorous, as though he
were caressing the most beautiful of women, he passed his hand over
her whole body, from the head to the tail, scratching the flexible
vertebrae which divided the panther's yellow back. The animal waved
her tail voluptuously, and her eyes grew gentle; and when for the
third time the Frenchman accomplished this interesting flattery, she
gave forth one of those purrings by which cats express their pleasure;
but this murmur issued from a throat so powerful and so deep that it
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