| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Facino Cane by Honore de Balzac: than a working man, and cared nothing for appearances, I did not put
them on their guard; I could join a group and look on while they drove
bargains or wrangled among themselves on their way home from work.
Even then observation had come to be an instinct with me; a faculty of
penetrating to the soul without neglecting the body; or rather, a
power of grasping external details so thoroughly that they never
detained me for a moment, and at once I passed beyond and through
them. I could enter into the life of the human creatures whom I
watched, just as the dervish in the /Arabian Nights/ could pass into
any soul or body after pronouncing a certain formula.
If I met a working man and his wife in the streets between eleven
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Off on a Comet by Jules Verne: As soon as he recovered his power of articulation, Isaac began
to pour out a medley of lamentations and petitions for mercy.
The captain was inexorable. "Very sorry, you know, Hakkabut. It is
not my fault that the packet is short weight; but I cannot pay
for a kilogramme except I have a kilogramme."
Hakkabut pleaded for some consideration.
"A bargain is a bargain," said Servadac. "You must complete your contract."
And, moaning and groaning, the miserable man was driven to make
up the full weight as registered by his own steelyard.
He had to repeat the process with the sugar and coffee:
for every kilogramme he had to weigh seven. Ben Zoof and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: stretched toward the dangling form that swung and
twisted from the grim, gaunt arm. Her figure was
racked with choking sobs of horror-stricken grief. Pres-
ently she staggered to her feet and turned away, bury-
ing her face in her hands; but he saw her features for
an instant then--the woman who openly and alone
mourned the dead Outlaw of Torn was Bertrade de
Montfort.
Slowly his arms relaxed, and gently and reverently
he lowered Joan de Tany to the ground. In that in-
stant Norman of Torn had learned the difference be-
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