| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Ursula by Honore de Balzac: reason. Genuine feelings have a magnetism of their own, and Ursula was
willing to show her soul, as a coquette her dresses to be admired.
Savinien entered that delightful kingdom, led by this pure heart,
which, to interpret its feelings, borrowed the power of the only art
that speaks to thought by thought, without the help of words, or
color, or form. Candor, openness of heart have the same power over a
man that childhood has; the same charm, the same irresistible
seductions. Ursula was never more honest and candid than at this
moment, when she was born again into a new life.
The abbe came to tear Savinien from his dream, requesting him to take
a fourth hand at whist. Ursula went on playing; the heirs departed,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from My Antonia by Willa Cather: and made faces at the spruce youngsters who came to dance.
That vacant lot soon became the most cheerful place in town.
Even on the hottest afternoons the cottonwoods made a rustling shade,
and the air smelled of popcorn and melted butter, and Bouncing
Bets wilting in the sun. Those hardy flowers had run away from
the laundryman's garden, and the grass in the middle of the lot
was pink with them.
The Vannis kept exemplary order, and closed every evening
at the hour suggested by the city council. When Mrs. Vanni
gave the signal, and the harp struck up `Home, Sweet Home,'
all Black Hawk knew it was ten o'clock. You could set your watch
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley: affording a wider scope for your revenge?"
"How is this? I must not be trifled with, and I demand an answer.
If I have no ties and no affections, hatred and vice must be my portion;
the love of another will destroy the cause of my crimes,
and I shall become a thing of whose existence everyone will be ignorant.
My vices are the children of a forced solitude that I abhor,
and my virtues will necessarily arise when I live in communion with an equal.
I shall feel the affections of a sensitive being and became linked to the
chain of existence and events from which I am now excluded."
I paused some time to reflect on all he had related and the various
arguments which he had employed. I thought of the promise of
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