| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen: "He would not tell me; he would only say that she had
destroyed him, body and soul. The man is dead now.
"And what has become of his wife?"
"Ah, that's what I should like to know, and I mean to
find her sooner or later. I know a man named Clarke, a dry
fellow, in fact a man of business, but shrewd enough. You
understand my meaning; not shrewd in the mere business sense of
the word, but a man who really knows something about men and
life. Well, I laid the case before him, and he was evidently
impressed. He said it needed consideration, and asked me to
come again in the course of a week. A few days later I received
The Great God Pan |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Scenes from a Courtesan's Life by Honore de Balzac: "What will you give the rabble?" said Contenson to Nucingen.
"You hafe not shown much consideration," said the Baron.
"And what about my leg?" cried Contenson.
"Louchard, you shall gife ein hundert francs to Contenson out of the
change of the tousand-franc note."
"De lady is a beauty," said the cashier to the Baron, as they left the
Rue Taitbout, "but she is costing you ver' dear, Monsieur le Baron."
"Keep my segret," said the Baron, who had said the same to Contenson
and Louchard.
Louchard went away with Contenson; but on the boulevard Asie, who was
looking out for him, stopped Louchard.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: Instances might be cited in which a conduct of this kind has
saved the people from very fatal consequences of their own
mistakes, and has procured lasting monuments of their gratitude
to the men who had courage and magnanimity enough to serve them
at the peril of their displeasure."]
The greater number of the Constitutions of the States assign
one year for the duration of the House of Representatives, and
two years for that of the Senate; so that members of the
legislative body are constantly and narrowly tied down by the
slightest desires of their constituents. The legislators of the
Union were of opinion that this excessive dependence of the
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