| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Prince of Bohemia by Honore de Balzac: administration; the National Guard was discreetly canvassed, du Bruel
was elected major, and behaved so valorously in a street riot, that he
was decorated with the rosette of an officer of the Legion of Honor.
He was appointed Master of Requests and head of a department. Uncle
Chaffaroux died and left his niece forty thousand francs per annum,
three-fourths of his fortune. Du Bruel became a deputy; but
beforehand, to save the necessity of re-election, he secured his
nomination to the Council of State. He reprinted divers archaeological
treatises, a couple of political pamphlets, and a statistical work, by
way of pretext for his appointment to one of the obliging academies of
the Institut. At this moment he is a Commander of the Legion, and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: the jagged hills of a leprous-looking coast, and Carter saw the
thick unpleasant grey towers of a city. The way they leaned and
bent, the manner in which they were clustered, and the fact that
they had no windows at all, was very disturbing to the prisoner;
and he bitterly mourned the folly which had made him sip the curious
wine of that merchant with the humped turban. As the coast drew
nearer, and the hideous stench of that city grew stronger, he
saw upon the jagged hills many forests, some of whose trees he
recognized as akin to that solitary moon-tree in the enchanted
wood of earth, from whose sap the small brown Zoogs ferment their
curious wine.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: president:
"What is the use of reading all this? It is only dragging it out.
These new brooms do not sweep clean; they only take a long while
doing it."
The member with the gold spectacles said nothing, but only looked
gloomily in front of him, expecting nothing good, either from his
wife or life in general. The reading of the report commenced.
"In the year 188-, on February 15th, I, the undersigned,
commissioned by the medical department, made an examination, No.
638," the secretary began again with firmness and raising the
pitch of his voice as if to dispel the sleepiness that had
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