| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Critias by Plato: island, for ships and voyages were not as yet. He himself, being a god,
found no difficulty in making special arrangements for the centre island,
bringing up two springs of water from beneath the earth, one of warm water
and the other of cold, and making every variety of food to spring up
abundantly from the soil. He also begat and brought up five pairs of twin
male children; and dividing the island of Atlantis into ten portions, he
gave to the first-born of the eldest pair his mother's dwelling and the
surrounding allotment, which was the largest and best, and made him king
over the rest; the others he made princes, and gave them rule over many
men, and a large territory. And he named them all; the eldest, who was the
first king, he named Atlas, and after him the whole island and the ocean
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Girl with the Golden Eyes by Honore de Balzac: thoughts, of my morning and evening dreams! What, are you there? Why
this morning? Why not yesterday? Take me, I am thine, /et cetera/!'
Good, I said to myself, another one! Then I scrutinize her. Ah, my
dear fellow, speaking physically, my incognita is the most adorable
feminine person whom I ever met. She belongs to that feminine variety
which the Romans call /fulva, flava/--the woman of fire. And in chief,
what struck me the most, what I am still taken with, are her two
yellow eyes, like a tiger's, a golden yellow that gleams, living gold,
gold which thinks, gold which loves, and is determined to take refuge
in your pocket."
"My dear fellow, we are full of her!" cried Paul. "She comes here
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Voice of the City by O. Henry: yond dispute, and my means are ample."
"They all say that," remarked Masie. "It's the
kid they all give you. I suppose you really work in a
delicatessen or follow the races. I ain't as green as
I look."
"I can furnish you all the proofs you want," said
Carter, gently. "And I want you, Masie. I loved
you the first day I saw you."
"They all do," said Masie, with an amused laugh,
"to hear 'em talk. If I could meet a man that got
stuck on me the third time he'd seen me I think I'd
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