| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Atheist's Mass by Honore de Balzac: Among the riddles which Desplein's life presents to many of his
contemporaries, we have chosen one of the most interesting,
because the answer is to be found at the end of the narrative,
and will avenge him for some foolish charges.
Of all the students in Desplein's hospital, Horace Bianchon was
one of those to whom he most warmly attached himself. Before
being a house surgeon at the Hotel-Dieu, Horace Bianchon had been
a medical student lodging in a squalid boarding house in the
Quartier Latin, known as the Maison Vauquer. This poor young man
had felt there the gnawing of that burning poverty which is a
sort of crucible from which great talents are to emerge as pure
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The United States Constitution: for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents
and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures
of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths
thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by
the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the
Year one thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect
the first and fourth Clauses in the ninth Section of the first Article;
and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of it's
equal Suffrage in the Senate.
ARTICLE SIX
All Debts contracted and Engagements entered into, before the Adoption
The United States Constitution |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Off on a Comet by Jules Verne: "The very question I was about to put to you, Captain Servadac."
"Do you mean to say you know nothing of the cause, and can tell me nothing
of the extent, of the catastrophe which has transformed this part of Africa
into an island?"
"Nothing more than you know yourself."
"But surely, Count Timascheff, you can inform me whether upon
the northern shore of the Mediterranean--"
"Are you certain that this is the Mediterranean?"
asked the count significantly, and added, "I have discovered
no sign of land."
The captain stared in silent bewilderment. For some moments
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