| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Drama on the Seashore by Honore de Balzac: emotion of mingled terror and astonishment, but he made no boast of
the truth of his prediction; he merely said,--
"You have seen him."
"Who is that man?"
"They call him the Man of the Vow."
You can imagine the movement with which our two heads turned at once
to our guide. He was a simple-hearted fellow; he understood at once
our mute inquiry, and here follows what he told us; I shall try to
give it as best I can in his own language, retaining his popular
parlance.
"Madame, folks from Croisic and those from Batz think this man is
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf: to help them. It was dreadful to be so far away from them.
But Mr. Flushing shook his head; he did not think that now--
later perhaps one might be able to help. Here Mrs. Flushing rose stiffly,
turned her back to them, and walked to the dressing-room opposite.
As she walked, they could see her breast slowly rise and slowly fall.
But her grief was silent. She shut the door behind her.
When she was alone by herself she clenched her fists together, and began
beating the back of a chair with them. She was like a wounded animal.
She hated death; she was furious, outraged, indignant with death,
as if it were a living creature. She refused to relinquish her
friends to death. She would not submit to dark and nothingness.
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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: Chapter 4
The Apes
In the forest of the table-land a mile back from the ocean
old Kerchak the Ape was on a rampage of rage among his people.
The younger and lighter members of his tribe scampered to
the higher branches of the great trees to escape his wrath;
risking their lives upon branches that scarce supported their
weight rather than face old Kerchak in one of his fits of
uncontrolled anger.
The other males scattered in all directions, but not before
the infuriated brute had felt the vertebra of one snap between
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