| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Study of a Woman by Honore de Balzac: of "Guillaume Tell," had reached the topic of the duties of women, he
looked at the marquise, more than once, in a manner that embarrassed
her; then he left her and did not speak to her again for the rest of
the evening. He danced, played at ecarte, lost some money, and went
home to bed. I have the honor to assure you that the affair happened
precisely thus. I add nothing, and I suppress nothing.
The next morning Rastignac woke late and stayed in bed, giving himself
up to one of those matutinal reveries in the course of which a young
man glides like a sylph under many a silken, or cashmere, or cotton
drapery. The heavier the body from its weight of sleep, the more
active the mind. Rastignac finally got up, without yawning over-much
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Dreams by Olive Schreiner: I said, "We are come to accuse no man."
And God bent, and said, "My children--what is it that ye seek?"
And she beside me drew my hand that I should speak for both.
I said, "We have come to ask that thou shouldst speak to Man, our brother,
and give us a message for him that he might understand, and that he
might--"
God said, "Go, take the message down to him!"
I said, "But what is the message?"
God said, "Upon your hearts it is written; take it down to him."
And we turned to go; the angels went with us to the door. They looked at
us.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: piece of cardboard among other business papers.
"Yes, yes. Maslova. All right, I will ask the others. We shall
hear the case on Wednesday."
"Then may I telegraph to the advocate?"
"The advocate! What's that for? But if you like, why not?"
"The causes for appeal may be insufficient," said Nekhludoff,
"but I think the case will show that the sentence was passed
owing to a misunderstanding."
"Yes, yes; it may be so, but the Senate cannot decide the case on
its merits," said Wolf, looking seriously at the ash of his
cigar. "The Senate only considers the exactness of the
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