| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from War and the Future by H. G. Wells: spare; after much examining and stamping of my passport I was
allowed outside the station wicket to get coffee in the
refreshment room and a glimpse of a very sad and silent Grand
Canal. There was nothing doing; a black despondent remnant of
the old crowd of gondolas browsed dreamily among against the quay
to stare at me the better. The empty palaces seemed to be
sleeping in the morning sunshine because it was not worth while
to wake up....
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Except in the case of Venice, the war does not seem as yet to
have made nearly such a mark upon life in Italy as it has in
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson: such a byke of wasps.
Catriona set her fingers to her lips and whistled once, with an
exceeding clear, strong, mounting note, as full as a ploughman's. A
while we stood silent; and I was about to ask her to repeat the same,
when I heard the sound of some one bursting through the bushes below on
the braeside. I pointed in that direction with a smile, and presently
Neil leaped into the garden. His eyes burned, and he had a black knife
(as they call it on the Highland side) naked in his hand; but, seeing
me beside his mistress, stood like a man struck.
"He has come to your call," said I; "judge how near he was to
Edinburgh, or what was the nature of your father's errands. Ask
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: attach this old man to another man. The passions never
miscalculate. Father Goriot felt that this friendship brought him
closer to his daughter Delphine; he thought that he should find a
warmer welcome for himself if the Baroness should care for
Eugene. Moreover, he had confided one of his troubles to the
younger man. Mme. de Nucingen, for whose happiness he prayed a
thousand times daily, had never known the joys of love. Eugene
was certainly (to make use of his own expression) one of the
nicest young men that he had ever seen, and some prophetic
instinct seemed to tell him that Eugene was to give her the
happiness which had not been hers. These were the beginnings of a
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