| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Daughter of Eve by Honore de Balzac: masked balls of the Opera, remarking that Marie had never been to one,
and proposing that she should accompany him the following evening.
"I'll find you some one to 'intriguer,'" he said.
"Ah! I wish you would," she replied.
"To do the thing well, a woman ought to fasten upon some good prey, a
celebrity, a man of enough wit to give and take. There's Nathan; will
you have him? I know, through a friend of Florine, certain secrets of
his which would drive him crazy."
"Florine?" said the countess. "Do you mean the actress?"
Marie had already heard that name from the lips of the watchman
Quillet; it now shot like a flash of lightning through her soul.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tin Woodman of Oz by L. Frank Baum: their eyes.
The creatures they beheld were round and ball-like;
round in body, round in legs and arms, round in hands
and feet and round of head. The only exception to the
roundness was a slight hollow on the top of each head,
making it saucer-shaped instead of dome-shaped. They
wore no clothes on their puffy bodies, nor had they any
hair. Their skins were all of a light gray color, and
their eyes were mere purple spots. Their noses were as
puffy as the rest of them.
"Are they rubber, do you think?" asked the Scarecrow,
The Tin Woodman of Oz |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Hated Son by Honore de Balzac: seashore; he guessed that Etienne's orders, repeated constantly, for
flowers concerned a woman; he discovered Gabrielle's nurse making her
way on foot to Forcalier, carrying linen or clothes, and bringing back
with her the work-frame and other articles needed by a young lady. The
spy then watched the cottage, saw the physician's daughter, and fell
in love with her. Beauvouloir he knew was rich. The duke would be
furious at the man's audacity. On those foundations the Baron
d'Artagnon erected the edifice of his fortunes. The duke, on learning
that his son was falling in love, would, of course, instantly endeavor
to detach him from the girl; what better way than to force her son
into a marriage with a noble like himself, giving his son to the
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