| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield: twenty-one. But they won't believe me. I showed the man my purse; I
didn't dare to do more. But it was no use. He simply scoffed...And now
I've just met Mrs. MacEwen from New York, and she just won thirteen
thousand in the Salle Privee--and she wants me to go back with her while
the luck lasts. Of course I can't leave--her. But if you'd--"
At that "she" looked up; she simply withered her mother. "Why can't you
leave me?" she said furiously. "What utter rot! How dare you make a scene
like this? This is the last time I'll come out with you. You really are
too awful for words." She looked her mother up and down. "Calm yourself,"
she said superbly.
Mrs. Raddick was desperate, just desperate. She was "wild" to go back with
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Scenes from a Courtesan's Life by Honore de Balzac: two months past."
All the while he was jerking out these dreadful sentences, one by one,
like pistol shots, Carlos Herrera was dressing himself to go out.
"You are evidently delighted," cried Lucien. "You never liked poor
Esther, and you look forward with joy to the moment when you will be
rid of her."
"You have never tired of loving her, have you? Well, I have never
tired of detesting her. But have I not always behaved as though I were
sincerely attached to the hussy--I, who, through Asie, hold her life
in my hands? A few bad mushrooms in a stew--and there an end. But
Mademoiselle Esther still lives!--and is happy!--And do you know why?
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Reason Discourse by Rene Descartes: if they are capable of making greater advancement than I have made, they
will much more be able of themselves to discover all that I believe myself
to have found; since as I have never examined aught except in order, it is
certain that what yet remains to be discovered is in itself more difficult
and recondite, than that which I have already been enabled to find, and
the gratification would be much less in learning it from me than in
discovering it for themselves. Besides this, the habit which they will
acquire, by seeking first what is easy, and then passing onward slowly and
step by step to the more difficult, will benefit them more than all my
instructions. Thus, in my own case, I am persuaded that if I had been
taught from my youth all the truths of which I have since sought out
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