| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Scenes from a Courtesan's Life by Honore de Balzac: that is to say, we must go to work."
She sat down at the table and wrote the following note:--
"MY FRIEND,--If the cook you have sent me had not already been in
my service, I might have thought that your purpose was to let me
know how often you had fainted yesterday on receiving my three
notes. (What can I say? I was very nervous that day; I was
thinking over the memories of my miserable existence.) But I know
how sincere Asie is. Still, I cannot repent of having caused you
so much pain, since it has availed to prove to me how much you
love me. This is how we are made, we luckless and despised
creatures; true affection touches us far more deeply than finding
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: size of an egg. The young man took the jar from the box; it was
as hot as fire. He cried out and let it fall. The jar burst upon
the floor with a crack of thunder; the house shook and rocked,
and the dust flew about in clouds. Then all was still; and when
Aben Hassen the Fool could see through the cloud of terror that
enveloped him he beheld a great, tall, hideous being as black as
ink, and with eyes that shone like coals of fire.
When the young man saw that terrible creature his tongue clave to
the roof of his mouth, and his knees smote together with fear,
for he thought that his end had now certainly come.
"Who are you?" he croaked, as soon as he could find his voice.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln: Inaugural Address of President Kennedy, officially on
November 22, 1993, on the day of the 30th anniversary
of his assassination.
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, given November 19, 1863
on the battlefield near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
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Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth
upon this continent a new nation: conceived in liberty, and
dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war. . .testing whether
that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated. . .
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