| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Man of Business by Honore de Balzac: The Firm of Nucingen
The Middle Classes
Dudley, Lord
The Lily of the Valley
The Thirteen
Another Study of Woman
A Daughter of Eve
Esgrignon, Victurnien, Comte (then Marquis d')
Jealousies of a Country Town
Letters of Two Brides
The Secrets of a Princess
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Case of the Golden Bullet by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: insisted on carrying the torn coat, and Muller permitted it after
some protest. They carefully closed the apartment and the house,
and walked toward the centre of the city to the police station,
where Muller lived.
As they crossed the square, it suddenly occurred to Johann that he
had no tobacco. He was a great smoker, and as he had many days of
enforced idleness ahead of him, he ran into a tobacco shop to
purchase a sufficiency of this necessity of life.
Muller waited outside, and his attention was attracted by a large
grey Ulmer hound which was evidently waiting for some one within
the shop. The dog came up to him in a most friendly manner, allowed
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad: We listened to the steward going into the bathroom out of
the saloon, filling the water bottles there, scrubbing the bath,
setting things to rights, whisk, bang, clatter--out again
into the saloon--turn the key--click. Such was my scheme
for keeping my second self invisible. Nothing better could
be contrived under the circumstances. And there we sat;
I at my writing desk ready to appear busy with some papers,
he behind me out of sight of the door. It would not have
been prudent to talk in daytime; and I could not have stood
the excitement of that queer sense of whispering to myself.
Now and then, glancing over my shoulder, I saw him far back there,
The Secret Sharer |
