| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Witch, et. al by Anton Chekhov: cleverness to a huntsman if there is no game? What I think is
that God has given men brains and taken away their strength.
People have grown weak, exceedingly weak. Take me, for instance .
. . I am not worth a halfpenny, I am the humblest peasant in the
whole village, and yet, young man, I have strength. Mind you, I
am in my seventies, and I tend my herd day in and day out, and
keep the night watch, too, for twenty kopecks, and I don't sleep,
and I don't feel the cold; my son is cleverer than I am, but put
him in my place and he would ask for a raise next day, or would
be going to the doctors. There it is. I eat nothing but bread,
for 'Give us this day our daily bread,' and my father ate nothing
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Of The Nature of Things by Lucretius: Nor glittering arrows of morning can disperse,
But only nature's aspect and her law.
ATOMIC MOTIONS
Now come: I will untangle for thy steps
Now by what motions the begetting bodies
Of the world-stuff beget the varied world,
And then forever resolve it when begot,
And by what force they are constrained to this,
And what the speed appointed unto them
Wherewith to travel down the vast inane:
Do thou remember to yield thee to my words.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac: but what assured and completed her success with these trained judges
was her modesty and the sort of ignorance in which she still remained
of her amazing talent,--in the midst, too, of praises which might have
turned her head. Accustomed to frenzied self-love and the insolent
pretensions of the veriest sparrow of the opera, these journalists
were amazed and touched by the humility, the simplicity of this
empress, who seemed quite astonished at the effect she produced.
The success of the trial passed all expectation. There was but one
voice as to the desirability of immediately engaging her; and Sir
Francis Drake, Vautrin, and Desroches presently passed into an
adjoining room to draw up the terms of the contract. As soon as that
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