| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from One Basket by Edna Ferber: the lines of strained resignation in the sagging muscles of his
patient face.
They had lived in the city for almost a year, but it was the same
every morning. He would open his eyes, start up with one hand
already reaching for the limp, drab work-worn garments that used
to drape the chair by his bed. Then he would remember and sink
back while a great wave of depression swept over him. Nothing to
get up for. Store clothes on the chair by the bed. He was
taking it easy.
Back home on the farm in southern Illinois he had known the hour
the instant his eyes opened. Here the flat next door was so
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: Hawaiian embassy with some original ceremonies. Malietoa Laupepa
came, attended by his ministry, several hundred chiefs, two guards,
and six policemen. Always decent, he withdrew at an early hour; by
those that remained, all decency appears to have been forgotten;
high chiefs were seen to dance; and day found the house carpeted
with slumbering grandees, who must be roused, doctored with coffee,
and sent home. As a first chapter in the history of Polynesian
Confederation, it was hardly cheering, and Laupepa remarked to one
of the embassy, with equal dignity and sense: "If you have come
here to teach my people to drink, I wish you had stayed away."
The Germans looked on from the first with natural irritation that a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pierre Grassou by Honore de Balzac: The Member for Arcis
Cardot (Parisian notary)
The Muse of the Department
A Man of Business
Jealousies of a Country Town
The Middle Classes
Cousin Pons
Grassou, Pierre
A Bachelor's Establishment
Cousin Betty
The Middle Classes
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