| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Elixir of Life by Honore de Balzac: profit. He immediately gave out that Don Juan would certainly be
canonized; he appointed a day for the celebration of the
apotheosis in his convent, which thenceforward, he said, should
be called the convent of San Juan of Lucar. At these words a
sufficiently facetious grimace passed over the features of the
late Duke.
The taste of the Spanish people for ecclesiastical solemnities is
so well known, that it should not be difficult to imagine the
religious pantomime by which the Convent of San-Lucar celebrated
the translation of the blessed Don Juan Belvidero to the abbey-
church. The tale of the partial resurrection had spread so
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed by Edna Ferber: hands, and the rareness of your laugh, and the simplicity
of you. Why I love the very cleanliness of your ruddy
skin, and the way your hair grows away from your
forehead, and your walk, and your voice and--Oh, what is
the use of it all?"
"Just this, Dawn. The light of day sweetens all
things. We have dragged this thing out into the
sunlight, where, if it grows, it will grow
sanely and healthily. It was but an ugly, distorted,
unsightly thing, sending out pale unhealthy shoots in the
dark, unwholesome cellars of our inner consciences.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: same; and so long as a decent woman, a de Conflans born and bred,
will give you all sorts of good things for dinner, nothing short
of the end of the world ought to--but there, it is the end of the
world, that is just what it is!"
"And to think that Mlle. Michonneau who made all this mischief is
to have a thousand crowns a year for it, so I hear," cried
Sylvie.
"Don't speak of her, she is a wicked woman!" said Mme. Vauquer.
"She is going to the Buneaud, who charges less than cost. But the
Buneaud is capable of anything; she must have done frightful
things, robbed and murdered people in her time. SHE ought to be
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