| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Hated Son by Honore de Balzac: the pulpit or the seats of the wardens. The married pair mounted by
three steps to this sumptuous couch, which stood upon a platform and
was hung with curtains of green silk covered with brilliant designs
called "ramages"--possibly because the birds of gay plumage there
depicted were supposed to sing. The folds of these immense curtains
were so stiff that in the semi-darkness they might have been taken for
some metal fabric. On the green velvet hanging, adorned with gold
fringes, which covered the foot of this lordly couch the superstition
of the Comtes d'Herouville had affixed a large crucifix, on which
their chaplain placed a fresh branch of sacred box when he renewed at
Easter the holy water in the basin at the foot of the cross.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Pupil by Henry James: sacrificed the advantage of a room outside. He clung to the
romantic utility of this when the day, or rather the night, should
arrive for their escape.
For the first time, in this complicated connexion, our friend felt
his collar gall him. It was, as he had said to Mrs. Moreen in
Venice, trop fort - everything was trop fort. He could neither
really throw off his blighting burden nor find in it the benefit of
a pacified conscience or of a rewarded affection. He had spent all
the money accruing to him in England, and he saw his youth going
and that he was getting nothing back for it. It was all very well
of Morgan to count it for reparation that he should now settle on
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: of the Gomangani.
Go-lat grunted in disgust and turned away. "Let the white
ape take care of himself," he said.
"He is a great ape," said Zu-tag. "He came to live in peace
with the tribe of Go-lat. Let us save him from the Goman-
gani."
Go-lat grunted again and continued to move away.
"Zu-tag will go alone and get him," cried the young ape,
"if Go-lat is afraid of the Gomangani."
The king ape wheeled in anger, growling loudly and beating
upon his breast. "Go-lat is not afraid," he screamed, "but he
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