| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London: chunk beside him. These he threw into the gold pan on the stove,
where the drinking-water thawed. The men drew up closer, and he
of the cramps sought greater comfort vainly for his stiffened
body.
"Brothers, my blood is red with Siwash, but my heart is white. To
the faults of my fathers I owe the one, to the virtues of my
friends the other. A great truth came to me when I was yet a boy.
I learned that to your kind and you was given the earth; that the
Siwash could not withstand you, and like the caribou and the bear,
must perish in the cold. So I came into the warm and sat among
you, by your fires, and behold, I became one of you, I have seen
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Recruit by Honore de Balzac: malady, and that was incurable."
This joke was cautiously uttered. Men, women, old men, and young
girls, all set to work to explore the vast field of conjecture. The
next day, conjectures became suspicions. As life is all aboveboard in
a little town, the women were the first to learn that Brigitte had
made larger purchases than usual in the market. This fact could not be
disputed: Brigitte had been seen there, very early in the morning;
and, extraordinary event! she had bought the only hare the market
afforded. Now all the town knew that Madame de Dey did not like game.
The hare became, therefore, the point of departure for a vast array of
suspicions. The old men who were taking their walks abroad, remarked a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Man of Business by Honore de Balzac: did things handsomely."
"Alas! it was a real aunt," said Desroches; "her name was--let me
see----"
"Ida Bonamy," said Bixiou.
"So as Antonia's aunt took a good deal of the work off her hands, she
went to bed late and lay late of a morning, never showing her face at
the desk until the afternoon, some time between two and four. From the
very first her appearance was enough to draw custom. Several elderly
men in the quarter used to come, among them a retired coach-builder,
one Croizeau. Beholding this miracle of female loveliness through the
window-panes, he took it into his head to read the newspapers in the
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