| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Anthem by Ayn Rand: 4-8818 and we have never spoken of it.
But we know. We know, when we look into
each other's eyes. And when we look thus
without words, we both know other things
also, strange things for which there are
no words, and these things frighten us.
So on that day of the spring before last,
Union 5-3992 were stricken with convulsions
on the edge of the City, near the City
Theatre. We left them to lie in the shade
of the Theatre tent and we went with
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac: "/Ecco la Pandora/! Hey! what do you think of her?"
"Marvellously beautiful; but would she pose?"
"Pooh!" exclaimed Benedetto, with an air which seemed to say: "I'd
like to see her refuse."
"But," I remarked, "she would cost too much, a model of her beauty."
"No; you need only make my bust--just a plaster cast--and give it to
her."
"Very good," I said. Then I told my friends to go and leave us alone
together.
Nobody minded me. Judging the wife by the husband, the eager young
fellows pressed round her; while she, wounded and angered by the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis: pulled his long, scraggly moustache careful, and he
squinched his eyes at me. Jake was a careful man
in everything he done.
"I dunno, Danny," he says. "Why?"
"Well," I says, "Hank sent me over to get that
wagon and them hosses of theirn and finish that
job."
"That there wagon," says Jake, "is in my barn,
with Si Emery watching her, and she has got to
stay there till the law lets her loose." I figgered
to myself Jake could use that team and wagon in
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