| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from An Old Maid by Honore de Balzac: him the most brilliant ornament of her salon. In her inmost mind
Mademoiselle Cormon had wished for the last dozen years to become
Madame de Valois. That name was like the branch of a tree, to which
the ideas which SWARMED in her mind about rank, nobility, and the
external qualities of a husband had fastened. But, though the
Chevalier de Valois was the man chosen by her heart, and mind, and
ambition, that elderly ruin, combed and curled like a little Saint-
John in a procession, alarmed Mademoiselle Cormon. She saw the
gentleman in him, but she could not see a husband. The indifference
which the chevalier affected as to marriage, above all, the apparent
purity of his morals in a house which abounded in grisettes, did
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Blix by Frank Norris: you're a treasure in yourself for a fellow looking for stories."
Then after the notes were taken and the story talked over, Captain
Jack, especially if the day happened to be Sunday, would insist
upon their staying to dinner--boiled beef and cabbage. smoking
coffee and pickles--that K. D. B. served in the little, brick-
paved kitchen in the back of the station. The crew messed in
their quarters overhead.
K. D. B. herself was not uninteresting. Her respectability
incased her like armor plate, and she never laughed without
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tanach: Hosea 2: 8 (2:10) For she did not know that it was I that gave her the corn, and the wine, and the oil, and multiplied unto her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.
Hosea 2: 9 (2:11) Therefore will I take back My corn in the time thereof, and My wine in the season thereof, and will snatch away My wool and My flax given to cover her nakedness.
Hosea 2: 10 (2:12) And now will I uncover her shame in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of My hand.
Hosea 2: 11 (2:13) I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feasts, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her appointed seasons.
Hosea 2: 12 (2:14) And I will lay waste her vines and her fig-trees, whereof she hath said: 'These are my hire that my lovers have given me'; and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.
Hosea 2: 13 (2:15) And I will visit upon her the days of the Baalim, wherein she offered unto them, and decked herself with her ear-rings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgot Me, saith the LORD.
Hosea 2: 14 (2:16) Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly unto her.
Hosea 2: 15 (2:17) And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she shall respond there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
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