| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Letters of Two Brides by Honore de Balzac: nonchalance. "I intend to make a love match, and am feeling my way--
that is all."
You see, dear, as love did not come to me, I had to do as Mahomet did
with the mountain.
Friday.
Once more I have seen my slave. He has become very timid, and puts on
an air of pious devotion, which I like, for it seems to say that he
feels my power and fascination in every fibre. But nothing in his look
or manner can rouse in these society sibyls any suspicion of the
boundless love which I see. Don't suppose though, dear, that I am
carried away, mastered, tamed; on the contrary, the taming, mastering,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Fantastic Fables by Ambrose Bierce: World.
"My children," said the Oldest and Wisest Ape in All the World,
when he had heard the Deputation, "you did right in ridding
yourselves of tyranny, but your tribe is not sufficiently advanced
to dispense with the forms of monarchy. Entice the tyrant back
with fair promises, kill him and enthrone. The skeleton of even
the most lawless despot makes a good constitutional sovereign."
At this the Deputation was greatly abashed. "It is impossible,"
they said, moving away; "our king has no skeleton; he was stuffed."
Uncalculating Zeal
A MAN-EATING tiger was ravaging the Kingdom of Damnasia, and the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Heroes by Charles Kingsley: clouds; and they knew it for the peak of Ida, and the famous
land of Crete. And they said, 'We will land in Crete, and
see Minos the just king, and all his glory and his wealth; at
least he will treat us hospitably, and let us fill our water-
casks upon the shore.'
But when they came nearer to the island they saw a wondrous
sight upon the cliffs. For on a cape to the westward stood a
giant, taller than any mountain pine, who glittered aloft
against the sky like a tower of burnished brass. He turned
and looked on all sides round him, till he saw the ARGO and
her crew; and when he saw them he came toward them, more
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