| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence: 'It sounds like saying an egg may go as addled as it likes, so long as
it keeps its shell on whole. But addled eggs do break of themselves.'
'I don't think people are eggs,' he said. 'Not even angels' eggs, my
dear little evangelist.'
He was in rather high feather this bright morning. The larks were
trilling away over the park, the distant pit in the hollow was fuming
silent steam. It was almost like old days, before the war. Connie
didn't really want to argue. But then she did not really want to go to
the wood with Clifford either. So she walked beside his chair in a
certain obstinacy of spirit.
'No,' he said. 'There will be no more strikes, it. The thing is
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Man of Business by Honore de Balzac: little Croizeau's diligence, he pushed matters on; he had 'come round'
the widow, as he expressed it. It was Maxime's intention to have all
the furniture removed at once to a lodging in a new house in the Rue
Tronchet, taken in the name of Mme. Ida Bonamy; he did not trouble
himself much about the nice old man that was about to lose his
thousand francs. But he had sent beforehand for several big furniture
vans.
"Once again he was fascinated by the beautiful furniture which a
wholesale dealer would have valued at six thousand francs. By the
fireside sat the wretched owner, yellow with jaundice, his head tied
up in a couple of printed handkerchiefs, and a cotton night-cap on top
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: for all thou hast done for me!"
"Only fools expect reward on earth," replied the mujik.
Michael Strogoff went out of the hut. When he tried
to walk he was seized with such faintness that, without the
assistance of the mujik, he would have fallen; but the fresh
air quickly revived him. He then felt the wound in his
head, the violence of which his fur cap had lessened. With
the energy which he possessed, he was not a man to suc-
cumb under such a trifle. Before his eyes lay a single goal
-- far-distant Irkutsk. He must reach it! But he must
pass through Omsk without stopping there.
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