| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Lesser Bourgeoisie by Honore de Balzac: humility of a man who is willing to accept the pitiable finale of his
life which I threw myself into the breach to prevent."
"Just as I, perhaps," said la Peyrade, with a touch of sarcasm, "ought
to believe in the reality of a kindness which, in order to save me,
has handled me so roughly."
The countess cast a reproachful look upon her visitor; her fingers
crumpled the ribbons of her gown; she lowered her eyes, and gave a
sigh, so nearly imperceptible, so slight, that it might have passed
for an accident in the most regular breathing.
"You are rancorous," she said, "and you judge people by one aspect
only. After all," she added, as if on reflection, "you are perhaps
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London: ALL GOLD CANYON
IT was the green heart of the canyon, where the walls swerved back from the
rigid plan and relieved their harshness of line by making a little sheltered
nook and filling it to the brim with sweetness and roundness and softness.
Here all things rested. Even the narrow stream ceased its turbulent down-rush
long enough to form a quiet pool. Knee-deep in the water, with drooping head
and half-shut eyes, drowsed a red-coated, many-antlered buck.
On one side, beginning at the very lip of the pool, was a tiny meadow, a cool,
resilient surface of green that extended to the base of the frowning wall.
Beyond the pool a gentle slope of earth ran up and up to meet the opposing
wall. Fine grass covered the slope--grass that was spangled with flowers, with
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall: answered this question by saying that the liquid condition enables
the molecule of water to turn round so as to place itself in the
proper line of polarization, while the rigidity of the solid
condition prevents this arrangement. This polar arrangement must
precede decomposition, and decomposition is an accompaniment of
conduction. He then passed on to other substances; to oxides and
chlorides, and iodides, and salts, and sulphurets, and found them
all insulators when solid, and conductors when fused. In all cases,
moreover, except one--and this exception he thought might be
apparent only--he found the passage of the current across the fused
compound to be accompanied by its decomposition. Is then the act of
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