| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Bureaucracy by Honore de Balzac: to him. He usually had a companion on the way in the person of
Monsieur Isidore Baudoyer, head of a bureau in Monsieur de la
Billardiere's division, consequently one of Rabourdin's colleagues.
Baudoyer was married to Elisabeth Saillard, the cashier's only
daughter, and had hired, very naturally, the apartments above those of
his father-in-law. No one at the ministry had the slightest doubt that
Saillard was a blockhead, but neither had any one ever found out how
far his stupidity could go; it was too compact to be examined; it did
not ring hollow; it absorbed everything and gave nothing out. Bixiou
(a clerk of whom more anon) caricatured the cashier by drawing a head
in a wig at the top of an egg, and two little legs at the other end,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Songs of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: Yet when the lamp from my expiring eyes
Shall dwindle and recede, the voice of love
Fall insignificant on my closing ears,
What sound shall come but the old cry of the wind
In our inclement city? what return
But the image of the emptiness of youth,
Filled with the sound of footsteps and that voice
Of discontent and rapture and despair?
So, as in darkness, from the magic lamp,
The momentary pictures gleam and fade
And perish, and the night resurges - these
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: Somerset's replying in the affirmative, 'You will excuse me,
my dear sir,' he resumed, 'if I offer you a hint. I think it
not improbable this lady may desire entirely to forget the
past. From one gentleman to another, no more words are
necessary.'
A moment after, he had received Mrs. Desborough with that
grave and touching urbanity that so well became him.
'I am pleased, madam, to welcome you to my poor house,' he
said; 'and shall be still more so, if what were else a barren
courtesy and a pleasure personal to myself, shall prove to be
of serious benefit to you and Mr. Desborough.'
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