| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Eugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac: management. For two consecutive years he made her order the household
meals in his presence and receive the rents, and he taught her slowly
and successively the names and remunerative capacity of his vineyards
and his farms. About the third year he had so thoroughly accustomed
her to his avaricious methods that they had turned into the settled
habits of her own life, and he was able to leave the household keys in
her charge without anxiety, and to install her as mistress of the
house.
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Five years passed away without a single event to relieve the
monotonous existence of Eugenie and her father. The same actions were
Eugenie Grandet |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: been any nearer death.
Again the lion roared. It sounded a little nearer. Tarzan felt
the old, wild impulse to reply with the challenge of his kind.
His kind? He had almost forgotten that he was a man and not an ape.
He tugged at his bonds. God, if he could but get them near
those strong teeth of his. He felt a wild wave of madness sweep
over him as his efforts to regain his liberty met with failure.
Numa was roaring almost continually now. It was quite
evident that he was coming down into the desert to hunt.
It was the roar of a hungry lion. Tarzan envied him, for he
was free. No one would tie him with ropes and slaughter
The Return of Tarzan |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In the South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson: than I had dreamed of; and I gathered (rightly or wrongly) that he
was scrupulous of touching in the least degree the private life and
habits of his slaves. So that even here, in full despotism, public
opinion has weight; even here, in the midst of slavery, freedom has
a corner.
Orderly, sober, and innocent, life flows in the isle from day to
day as in a model plantation under a model planter. It is
impossible to doubt the beneficence of that stern rule. A curious
politeness, a soft and gracious manner, something effeminate and
courtly, distinguishes the islanders of Apemama; it is talked of by
all the traders, it was felt even by residents so little beloved as
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