| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Poems by T. S. Eliot: Who had not seen the silhouette
Of Sweeney straddled in the sun).
Tests the razor on his leg
Waiting until the shriek subsides.
The epileptic on the bed
Curves backward, clutching at her sides.
The ladies of the corridor
Find themselves involved, disgraced,
Call witness to their principles
And deprecate the lack of taste
Observing that hysteria
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: compose yourself; there is no fear; this is his lordship's
way.'
'What? what?' cried his lordship. 'My way? Ish no such a
thing, my way.'
'Come, my lord,' cried Archer; 'you and I very thoroughly
understand each other; and let me suggest, it is time that
both of us were gone. The mail will soon be due. Here,
then, my lord, I take my leave of you, with the most earnest
assurance of my gratitude for the past, and a sincere offer
of any services I may be able to render in the future.'
'Archer,' exclaimed Lord Windermoor, 'I love you like a son.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Scenes from a Courtesan's Life by Honore de Balzac: the Rue Payenne and the Rue des Ballets, where he was placed in
solitary confinement.
The Abbe Carlos Herrera was also there, having been arrested that
evening.
THE END OF EVIL WAYS
At six o'clock next morning two vehicles with postilions, prison vans,
called in the vigorous language of the populace, paniers a salade,
came out of La Force to drive to the Conciergerie by the Palais de
Justice.
Few loafers in Paris can have failed to meet this prison cell on
wheels; still, though most stories are written for Parisian readers,
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