| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: decreed whereon ye asked me for a decision!'
And he said to him whom he thought would escape of those two,
Remember me with thy lord!' But Satan made him forget the
remembrance of his lord, so he tarried in prison a few years.
Then said the king, 'Verily, I see seven fat kine which seven lean
kine devoured; and seven green ears of corn and others dry. O ye
chiefs! Explain to me my vision, if a vision ye can expound!'
Said they, 'Confused dreams, and naught of the exposition of such
dreams know we!'
Then he who had escaped of those twain said,- remembering after a
while,- 'Verily, I will inform you of the interpretation thereof, so
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Maitre Cornelius by Honore de Balzac: personage both curious and formidable. Though quite decided through
the violence of his love to enter that house, and stay there long
enough to accomplish his design, he hesitated to take the final step,
all the while aware that he should certainly take it. But where is the
man who, in a crisis of his life, does not willingly listen to
presentiments as he hangs above the precipice? A lover worthy of being
loved, the young man feared to die before he had been received for
love's sake by the countess.
This mental deliberation was so painfully interesting that he did not
feel the cold wind as it whistled round the corner of the building,
and chilled his legs. On entering that house, he must lay aside his
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Atheist's Mass by Honore de Balzac: hide, he walked with his head erect, and a mind content. In
short, to put the facts into a word, Horace was the Pylades of
more than one Orestes--creditors being regarded as the nearest
modern equivalent to the Furies of the ancients.
He carried his poverty with the cheerfulness which is perhaps one
of the chief elements of courage, and, like all people who have
nothing, he made very few debts. As sober as a camel and active
as a stag, he was steadfast in his ideas and his conduct.
The happy phase of Bianchon's life began on the day when the
famous surgeon had proof of the qualities and the defects which,
these no less than those, make Doctor Horace Bianchon doubly dear
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