| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Children of the Night by Edwin Arlington Robinson: Cursed and unkempt, shrewd, shrivelled, and morose.
A miser was he, with a miser's nose,
And eyes like little dollars in the dark.
His thin, pinched mouth was nothing but a mark;
And when he spoke there came like sullen blows
Through scattered fangs a few snarled words and close,
As if a cur were chary of its bark.
Glad for the murmur of his hard renown,
Year after year he shambled through the town, --
A loveless exile moving with a staff;
And oftentimes there crept into his ears
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Village Rector by Honore de Balzac: the keepers, the blacksmith's inspection of the chains every day,
night and morning, the coarse food, the hideous garments which
humiliate a man at all hours, the comfortless sleep, the horrible
rattling of eight hundred chains in that resounding hall, the prospect
of being shot or blown to pieces by cannon if ten of those villains
took a fancy to revolt, all those dreadful things are nothing,--
nothing, I tell you; that is the bright side only. There's another
side, madame, and a decent man, a bourgeois, would die of horror in a
week. A convict is forced to live with another man; obliged to endure
the company of five other men at every meal, twenty-three in his bed
at night, and to hear their language! The great society of galley-
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Animal Farm by George Orwell: dead--he had died in an inebriates' home in another part of the country.
Snowball was forgotten. Boxer was forgotten, except by the few who had
known him. Clover was an old stout mare now, stiff in the joints and with
a tendency to rheumy eyes. She was two years past the retiring age, but in
fact no animal had ever actually retired. The talk of setting aside a
corner of the pasture for superannuated animals had long since been
dropped. Napoleon was now a mature boar of twenty-four stone. Squealer was
so fat that he could with difficulty see out of his eyes. Only old
Benjamin was much the same as ever, except for being a little greyer about
the muzzle, and, since Boxer's death, more morose and taciturn than ever.
There were many more creatures on the farm now, though the increase was
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