| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Passion in the Desert by Honore de Balzac: always impresses me favorably. He was without doubt one of those
troopers who are surprised at nothing, who find matter for laughter in
the contortions of a dying comrade, who bury or plunder him quite
light-heartedly, who stand intrepidly in the way of bullets;--in fact,
one of those men who waste no time in deliberation, and would not
hesitate to make friends with the devil himself. After looking very
attentively at the proprietor of the menagerie getting out of his box,
my companion pursed up his lips with an air of mockery and contempt,
with that peculiar and expressive twist which superior people assume
to show they are not taken in. Then, when I was expatiating on the
courage of M. Martin, he smiled, shook his head knowingly, and said,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: and women who remember Him,- God has prepared for them forgiveness and
a mighty hire.
It is not for a believing man or for a believing woman, when God and
His Apostle have decided an affair, to have the choice in that affair;
and whoso rebels against God and His Apostle has erred with an obvious
error.
And when thou didst say to him God had shown favour to and thou
hadst shown favour to, 'Keep thy wife to thyself and fear God;' and
thou didst conceal in thy soul what God was about to display; and
didst fear men, though God is more deserving that thou shouldst fear
Him; and when Zaid had fulfilled his desire of her we did wed thee
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Youth by Joseph Conrad: writers as much as we could of the ship's gear. Accord-
ing we went to work aft, while she blazed forward to give
us plenty of light. We lugged out a lot of rubbish.
What didn't we save? An old barometer fixed with an
absurd quantity of screws nearly cost me my life: a
sudden rush of smoke came upon me, and I just got
away in time. There were various stores, bolts of canvas,
coils of rope; the poop looked like a marine bazaar, and
the boats were lumbered to the gunwales. One would
have thought the old man wanted to take as much as he
could of his first command with him. He was very very
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