| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Paz by Honore de Balzac: in the morning, led away by the excitement of the scene, Clementine,
on whom La Palferine had expended his seductions, consented to accept
a supper, and was about to enter the carriage of her faithless friend.
At this critical moment her arm was grasped by a powerful hand, and
she was taken, in spite of her struggles, to her own carriage, the
door of which stood open, though she did not know it was there.
"He has never left Paris!" she exclaimed to herself as she recognized
Thaddeus, who disappeared when the carriage drove away.
Did any woman ever have a like romance in her life? Clementine is
constantly hoping she may again see Paz.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Human Drift by Jack London: the very covering-board splintered, and still the anchor held. At
last, hoisting the reefed main-sail and slacking off a few of the
hard-won feet of the chain, we sailed the anchor out. It was nip
and tuck, though, and there were times when the boat was knocked
down flat. We repeated the manoeuvre with the remaining anchor,
and in the gathering darkness fled into the shelter of the river's
mouth.
I was born so long ago that I grew up before the era of gasolene.
As a result, I am old-fashioned. I prefer a sail-boat to a motor-
boat, and it is my belief that boat-sailing is a finer, more
difficult, and sturdier art than running a motor. Gasolene
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner: Through the open door in the gable little Em was visible, her feet dangling
from the high bench on which she sat. The room, once a storeroom, had been
divided by a row of mealie bags into two parts--the back being Bonaparte's
bedroom, the front his schoolroom.
"Lyndall made him angry," said the girl tearfully; "and he has given me the
fourteenth of John to learn. He says he will teach me to behave myself
when Lyndall troubles him."
"What did she do?" asked the boy.
"You see," said Em, hopelessly turning the leaves, "whenever he talks she
looks out at the door, as though she did not hear him. Today she asked him
what the signs of the Zodiac were, and he said he was surprised that she
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