| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Daisy Miller by Henry James: avvocato. But he doesn't move in what are called the first circles.
I think it is really not absolutely impossible that the courier
introduced him. He is evidently immensely charmed with Miss Miller.
If she thinks him the finest gentleman in the world, he, on his side,
has never found himself in personal contact with such splendor,
such opulence, such expensiveness as this young lady's. And
then she must seem to him wonderfully pretty and interesting.
I rather doubt that he dreams of marrying her.
That must appear to him too impossible a piece of luck.
He has nothing but his handsome face to offer, and there is
a substantial Mr. Miller in that mysterious land of dollars.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Psychology of Revolution by Gustave le Bon: been unable to defend him.
Regarded only from the purely utilitarian point of view, the
execution of the king was one of the mistakes of the Revolution.
It engendered civil war and armed Europe against France. In the
Convention itself his death gave rise to intestine struggles,
which finally led to the triumph of the Montagnards and the
expulsion of the Girondists.
The measures passed under the influence of the Montagnards
finally became so despotic that sixty departments, comprising the
West and the South, revolted. The insurrection, which was headed
by many of the expelled deputies, would perhaps have succeeded
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Grimm's Fairy Tales by Brothers Grimm: at him, but wagged their tails quite amicably around him, ate what he
set before them, and did not hurt one hair of his head. Next morning,
to the astonishment of everyone, he came out again safe and unharmed,
and said to the lord of the castle: 'The dogs have revealed to me, in
their own language, why they dwell there, and bring evil on the land.
They are bewitched, and are obliged to watch over a great treasure
which is below in the tower, and they can have no rest until it is
taken away, and I have likewise learnt, from their discourse, how that
is to be done.' Then all who heard this rejoiced, and the lord of the
castle said he would adopt him as a son if he accomplished it
successfully. He went down again, and as he knew what he had to do, he
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