| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: distinguish one from other. The marriage of a man of twenty-
seven and a girl of twenty who have lived for twelve years as
brother and sister, is difficult to conceive. It took place,
however, and thus in 1799 the family was still further
cemented by the union of a representative of the male or
worldly element with one of the female and devout.
This essential difference remained unbridged, yet never
diminished the strength of their relation. My grandfather
pursued his design of advancing in the world with some measure
of success; rose to distinction in his calling, grew to be the
familiar of members of Parliament, judges of the Court of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The First Men In The Moon by H. G. Wells: experiences. For a time I tugged silently at my bonds. " Cavor! " I cried
out sharply. "Why am I tied? Why have you tied me hand and foot? "
"I haven't tied you," he answered. "It's the Selenites."
The Selenites! My mind hung on that for a space. Then my memories came
back to me: the snowy desolation, the thawing of the air, the growth of"
the plants, our strange hopping and crawling among the rocks and
vegetation of the crater. All the distress of our frantic search for the
sphere returned to me. ... Finally the opening of the great lid that
covered the pit!
Then as I strained to trace our later movements down to our present
plight, the pain in my head became intolerable. I came to an
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Eve and David by Honore de Balzac: over the walls covered with inscriptions left by David's predecessors,
and tears filled the eyes that were red with weeping. She had sobbed
long and very bitterly, but the sight of her husband in a felon's cell
drew fresh tears.
"And the desire of fame may lead one to this!" she cried. "Oh! my
angel, give up your career. Let us walk together along the beaten
track; we will not try to make haste to be rich, David. . . . I need
very little to be very happy, especially now, after all that we have
been through. . . . And if you only knew--the disgrace of arrest is
not the worst. . . . Look."
She held out Lucien's letter, and when David had read it, she tried to
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