| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Vicar of Tours by Honore de Balzac: of his own egotism, it was impossible that he should now perceive his
own faults towards his landlady.
Though the great things of life are simple to understand and easy to
express, the littlenesses require a vast number of details to explain
them. The foregoing events, which may be called a sort of prologue to
this bourgeois drama, in which we shall find passions as violent as
those excited by great interests, required this long introduction; and
it would have been difficult for any faithful historian to shorten the
account of these minute developments.
II
The next morning, on awaking, Birotteau thought so much of his
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: cocksure about it, but he will be bled; I have just invented a
thrust for his benefit, a way of raising your sword point and
driving it at the forehead. I must show you that thrust; it is an
uncommonly handy thing to know."
Rastignac heard him in dazed bewilderment; he could not find a
word in reply. Just then Goriot came in, and Bianchon and a few
of the boarders likewise appeared.
"That is just as I intended." Vautrin said. "You know quite well
what you are about. Good, my little eaglet! You are born to
command, you are strong, you stand firm on your feet, you are
game! I respect you."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Weir of Hermiston by Robert Louis Stevenson: religious matters - or, as others said, to heresy and schism. Every
Sunday morning he was in Crossmichael, where he had gathered together,
one by one, a sect of about a dozen persons, who called themselves
"God's Remnant of the True Faithful," or, for short, "God's Remnant."
To the profane, they were known as "Gib's Deils." Bailie Sweedie, a
noted humorist in the town, vowed that the proceedings always opened to
the tune of "The Deil Fly Away with the Exciseman," and that the
sacrament was dispensed in the form of hot whisky-toddy; both wicked
hits at the evangelist, who had been suspected of smuggling in his
youth, and had been overtaken (as the phrase went) on the streets of
Crossmichael one Fair day. It was known that every Sunday they prayed
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