The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Hidden Masterpiece by Honore de Balzac: superstitiously minute anatomical details; for, let me tell you, the
human body does not end off with a line. In that respect sculptors get
nearer to the truth of nature than we do. Nature is all curves, each
wrapping or overlapping another. To speak rigorously, there is no such
thing as drawing. Do not laugh, young man; no matter how strange that
saying seems to you, you will understand the reasons for it one of
these days. A line is a means by which man explains to himself the
effect of light upon a given object; but there is no such thing as a
line in nature, where all things are rounded and full. It is only in
modelling that we really draw,--in other words, that we detach things
from their surroundings and put them in their due relief. The proper
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from An Historical Mystery by Honore de Balzac: --You're a tough fellow to deal with, and you gave us too much trouble
not to make us anxious to satisfy our curiosity about this hiding-
place of yours."
"I'd give something," cried Michu, "to know how and by whom we have
been sold."
"If that puzzles you, old fellow," said Peyrade, laughing, "look at
your horses' shoes, and you'll see that you betrayed yourselves."
"Well, there need be no rancor!" said Corentin, whistling for the
captain of gendarmerie and their horses.
"So that rascally Parisian blacksmith who shoed the horses in the
English fashion and left Cinq-Cygne only the other day was their spy!"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: and relieve the tension.
Alison put her hand over her eyes, as if to shut out the sight of
the man she had so nearly married, and I furtively touched one of
the soft little curls that nestled at the back of her neck.
"When I was able to walk," went on the sullen voice, "I came at
once to Washington. I tried to sell the notes to Bronson, but he
was almost at the end of his rope. Not even my threat to send them
back to you, Mr. Blakeley, could make him meet my figure. He didn't
have the money.
McKnight was triumphant.
"I think you gentlemen will see reason in my theory now," he said.
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