| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: The elder answered him, "This do, and thou shalt be like unto a
youth of great understanding of whom I have heard tell, that was
born of rich and distinguished parents. For him his father
sought in marriage the exceeding fair young daughter of a man of
high rank and wealth. But when he communed with his son
concerning the espousals, and informed him of his plans, the son
thought it strange and ill-sounding, and cast it off, and left
his father and went into exile. On his journey he found
entertainment in the house of a poor old man, where he rested
awhile during the heat of the day.
"Now this poor man's daughter, his only child, a virgin, was
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Gentle Grafter by O. Henry: wood ashes and benzine. I sold loads of 'em in towns where they like
to burn niggers quick, without having to ask somebody for a light. And
just when I was doing the best they strikes oil down there and puts me
out of business. 'Your machine's too slow, now, pardner,' they tells
me. 'We can have a coon in hell with this here petroleum before your
old flint-and-tinder truck can get him warm enough to perfess
religion.' And so I gives up the kindler and drifts up here to K.C.
This little curtain-raiser you seen me doing, Mr. Pickens, with the
simulated farm and the hypothetical teams, ain't in my line at all,
and I'm ashamed you found me working it."
"No man," says I, kindly, "need to be ashamed of putting the skibunk
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Catherine de Medici by Honore de Balzac: for not residing in Paris and for keeping the king and court in a
castle the whole exterior surroundings of which could easily be
watched and defended. A struggle was now beginning around the throne,
between the house of Lorraine and the house of Valois, which was
destined to end in this very chateau, twenty-eight years later, namely
in 1588, when Henri III., under the very eyes of his mother, at that
moment deeply humiliated by the Lorrains, heard fall upon the floor of
his own cabinet, the head of the boldest of all the Guises, the second
Balafre, son of that first Balafre by whom Catherine de' Medici was
now being tricked, watched, threatened, and virtually imprisoned.
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