| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Historical Lecturers and Essays by Charles Kingsley: mixture of the sacred and the profane. The theses which were
sustained there began by an invocation to God, the Blessed Virgin,
and St. Luke, and ended by these words: 'This thesis will be
sustained in the sacred Temple of Apollo.'"
But however extravagant Chancellor Fanchon's praises of his native
city may seem, they are really not exaggerated. The Narbonnaise, or
Languedoc, is perhaps the most charming district of charming France.
In the far north-east gleam the white Alps; in the far south-west
the white Pyrenees; and from the purple glens and yellow downs of
the Cevennes on the north-west, the Herault slopes gently down
towards the "Etangs," or great salt-water lagoons, and the vast
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Underground City by Jules Verne: that they were destined to store it, in the form of coal,
in the very bowels of the earth.
It was the earthquake period, caused by internal convulsions,
which suddenly modified the unsettled features of the
terrestrial surface. Here, an intumescence which was to become
a mountain, there, an abyss which was to be filled with an ocean
or a sea. There, whole forests sunk through the earth's crust,
below the unfixed strata, either until they found a resting-place,
such as the primitive bed of granitic rock, or, settling together
in a heap, they formed a solid mass.
As the waters were contained in no bed, and were spread over every
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: "Why better?" she asked.
"I think the people are better. Here are none such as there must
be there."
"There are many good ones there," she said.
"I have been seeing about the Menshoffs, and hope they will be
liberated," said Nekhludoff.
"God grant they may. Such a splendid old woman," she said, again
repeating her opinion of the old woman, and slightly smiling.
"I am going to Petersburg to-day. Your case will come on soon,
and I hope the sentence will be repealed."
"Whether it is repealed or not won't matter now," she said.
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