| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Collected Articles by Frederick Douglass: assured me that no slave-holder could take a slave out of New Bedford;
that there were men there who would lay down their lives to save me
from such a fate.
The fifth day after my arrival, I put on the clothes of a common laborer,
and went upon the wharves in search of work. On my way down Union street
I saw a large pile of coal in front of the house of Rev. Ephraim Peabody,
the Unitarian minister. I went to the kitchen door and asked the privilege
of bringing in and putting away this coal. "What will you charge?"
said the lady. "I will leave that to you, madam." "You may put it away,"
she said. I was not long in accomplishing the job, when the dear lady
put into my hand TWO SILVER HALF-DOLLARS. To understand the emotion
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Paz by Honore de Balzac: also her capacity for observation.
It resulted from this little incident that silence reigned in the
salon while the three took their coffee, a silence rather annoying to
Adam, who was incapable of imagining the cause of it. Clementine no
longer tried to draw out Thaddeus. The captain, on the other hand,
retreated within his military stiffness and came out of it no more,
neither on the way to the Opera nor in the box, where he seemed to be
asleep.
"You see, madame, that I am a very stupid man," he said during the
dance in the last act of "Guillaume Tell." "Am I not right to keep, as
the saying is, to my own specialty?"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: that it predominates in the period of our sinless infancy - are
difficulties the solution of which might afford some probable
insight into our ante-mundane condition, and a peep at least into
the shadowland of pre-existence.
- Charles Lamb: Witches and
Other Night-Fears
I.
When a traveller in north central Massachusetts
takes the wrong fork at the junction of Aylesbury pike just beyond
Dean's Corners he comes upon a lonely and curious country.
The
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