| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Under the Andes by Rex Stout: I turned and fled in a sudden panic to the rear, calling to Harry
and Desiree.
They met me at the edge of the stream, and their eyes told me
that they read in my face what had happened, though they had seen
nothing.
"You--you saw it--" Harry stammered.
I nodded, scarcely able to speak.
"Then--perhaps now--"
"Yes," I interposed. "Let's get out of here. It's horrible.
And yet how can we go? I can hardly stand."
But Harry was now the one who argued for delay, saying that
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Memories and Portraits by Robert Louis Stevenson: quickened. And mark, for a last differentia, that this quickening
of the pulse is, in almost every case, purely agreeable; that these
phantom reproductions of experience, even at their most acute,
convey decided pleasure; while experience itself, in the cockpit of
life, can torture and slay.
What, then, is the object, what the method, of an art, and what the
source of its power? The whole secret is that no art does "compete
with life." Man's one method, whether he reasons or creates, is to
half-shut his eyes against the dazzle and confusion of reality.
The arts, like arithmetic and geometry, turn away their eyes from
the gross, coloured and mobile nature at our feet, and regard
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Recruit by Honore de Balzac: look.
"Julien Jussieu."
"Where do you come from?" continued the magistrate, with a smile of
incredulity.
"Paris."
"Your comrades are at some distance," resumed the Norman official, in
a sarcastic tone.
"I am nine miles in advance of the battalion."
"Some strong feeling must be bringing you to Carentan, citizen
recruit," said the mayor, slyly. "Very good, very good," he added
hastily, silencing with a wave of his hand a reply the young man was
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