| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Life of the Spider by J. Henri Fabre: the series.
First, a few threads are flung out, hither and thither, to keep the
layer of wadding in position. The Epeira takes special pains with
the edge of the neck, where she fashions an indented border, the
angles of which, prolonged with cords or lines, form the main
support of the building. The spinnerets never touch this part
without giving it, each time, until the end of the work, a certain
added solidity, necessary to secure the stability of the balloon.
The suspensory indentations soon outline a crater which needs
plugging. The Spider closes the bag with a padded stopper similar
to that with which she sealed the egg-pocket.
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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: "Seven hundred and fifty thousand francs," said Jacques Collin
blandly.
The three convicts looked at each other and withdrew from the group
that had gathered round the sham priest.
"He screwed the moll's place himself!" said Fil-de-Soie in a whisper
to le Biffon, "and they want to put us in a blue funk for our
cartwheels" (thunes de balles, five-franc pieces).
"He will always be the boss of the swells," replied la Pouraille. "Our
pieces are safe enough."
La Pouraille, wishing to find some man he could trust, had an interest
in considering Jacques Collin an honest man. And in prison, of all
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs: distance, had suddenly come screaming toward them, crying
that a terrible white and naked warrior was pursuing him.
The three of them had hurried toward the village as rapidly
as their legs would carry them.
Again Mirando's shrill cry of mortal terror had caused
them to look back, and there they had seen the most horrible
sight--their companion's body flying upwards into the trees,
his arms and legs beating the air and his tongue protruding
from his open mouth. No other sound did he utter nor was
there any creature in sight about him.
The villagers were worked up into a state of fear bordering
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