| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Heroes by Charles Kingsley: and a maiden, and fitted them upon his bed; and the young
man's hands and feet he cut off, but the maiden's limbs he
stretched until she died, and so both perished miserably -
but I am tired of weeping over the slain. And therefore he
is called Procrustes the stretcher, though his father called
him Damastes. Flee from him: yet whither will you flee?
The cliffs are steep, and who can climb them? and there is no
other road.'
But Theseus laid his hand upon the old man's month, and said,
'There is no need to flee;' and he turned to go down the
pass.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Muse of the Department by Honore de Balzac: proud and ambitious woman, whose mind was so accomplished, and who had
queened it so well at the Chateau d'Anzy, now condescending to
household cares and sewing for the coming infant, moved the poor
lawyer, who had just left the bench. And as he saw the pricks on one
of the taper fingers he had so often kissed, he understood that Madame
de la Baudraye was not merely playing at this maternal task.
In the course of this first interview the magistrate saw to the depths
of Dinah's soul. This perspicacity in a man so much in love was a
superhuman effort. He saw that Didine meant to be the journalist's
guardian spirit and lead him into a nobler road; she had seen that the
difficulties of his practical life were due to some moral defects.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tom Grogan by F. Hopkinson Smith: a hole, but ye ain't in it, an' the sergeant is. I'll unload
every pound of that coal, if I do it for nothin', and if that
sneak in striped trousers bothers me or you, I'll pull him apart
an' stamp on him!'"
Through all her talk there was a triumphant good humor, a
joyousness, a glow and breeziness, which completely fascinated
Babcock. Although she had been up half the night, she was as
sweet and fresh and rosy as a child. Her vitality, her strength,
her indomitable energy, impressed him as no woman's had ever done
before.
When she had finished her story she suddenly caught Patsy out of
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