| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Unconscious Comedians by Honore de Balzac: Carabine's, where du Tillet gives a fete apropos of railways,--they
are plundering more than ever on the roads."
"Ah ca! but isn't your cousin from the Pyrenees?" asked the young man,
now become serious.
"Yes," replied Gazonal.
"And you did not vote for us in the last elections?" said the
statesman, looking hard at Gazonal.
"No; but what you have just said in my hearing has bribed me; on the
word of a commandant of the National Guard I'll have your candidate
elected--"
"Very good; will you guarantee your cousin?" asked the young man,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott: drop left. Oh, Pip! Oh, Pip! How could I be so cruel to you?"
cried Beth, taking the poor thing in her hands and trying to
restore him.
Jo peeped into his half-open eye, felt his little heart, and
finding him stiff and cold, shook her head, and offered her domino
box for a coffin.
"Put him in the oven, and maybe his will get warm and revive,"
said Amy hopefully.
"He's been starved, and he shan't be baked now he's dead. I'll
make him a shroud, and he shall be buried in the garden, and I'll
never have another bird, never, my Pip! For I am too bad to own
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland by Olive Schreiner: out--and no man heeded it: it was only a rushlight.
"'And there was a light once; men set it on high within a lighthouse, that
it might yield light to all souls at sea; that afar off they might see its
steady light and find harbour, and escape the rocks.
"'And that light flickered and flared, as it listed. It went this way and
it went that; it burnt blue, and green, and red; now it disappeared
altogether, and then it burnt up again. And men, far out at sea, kept
their eyes fixed where they knew the light should be: saying, 'We are
safe; the great light will lead us when we near the rocks.' And on dark
nights men drifted nearer and nearer; and in the stillness of the midnight
they struck on the lighthouse rocks and went down at its feet.
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