| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson: Our driver gave me a lecture by the way on Californian trees
- a thing I was much in need of, having fallen among painters
who know the name of nothing, and Mexicans who know the name
of nothing in English. He taught me the madrona, the
manzanita, the buck-eye, the maple; he showed me the crested
mountain quail; he showed me where some young redwoods were
already spiring heavenwards from the ruins of the old; for in
this district all had already perished: redwoods and
redskins, the two noblest indigenous living things, alike
condemned.
At length, in a lonely dell, we came on a huge wooden gate
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac: not? I am not a woman, am I, on whom the passion of love could gain a
foothold? The man who, on some glorious day, will render me happy is
my Armand, my Rene, my Nais, three angels for whom I have hitherto
lived--there can never be for me, I feel it deeply, another passion!
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THE COMTESSE DE L'ESTORADE TO MADAME OCTAVE DE CAMPS
Paris, March, 1839.
About the year 1820 in the course of the same week two /news/ (to use
the schoolboy phrase of my son Armand) entered the college of Tours.
One had a charming face, the other would have been thought ugly if
health, frankness, and intelligence beaming on his features had not
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Before Adam by Jack London: very period. Nor have I been able to frame up the
various dreams so as to bridge the gap between my
leaving the home-tree and my arrival at the caves.
I remember that several times I came to open spaces.
These I crossed in great trepidation, descending to the
ground and running at the top of my speed. I remember
that there were days of rain and days of sunshine, so
that I must have wandered alone for quite a time. I
especially dream of my misery in the rain, and of my
sufferings from hunger and how I appeased it. One very
strong impression is of hunting little lizards on the
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