| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from La Grande Breteche by Honore de Balzac: was not more than five feet two or three in height, but so well made;
and he had little hands that he kept so beautifully! Ah! you should
have seen them. He had as many brushes for his hands as a woman has
for her toilet. He had thick, black hair, a flame in his eye, a
somewhat coppery complexion, but which I admired all the same. He wore
the finest linen I have ever seen, though I have had princesses to
lodge here, and, among others, General Bertrand, the Duc and Duchesse
d'Abrantes, Monsieur Descazes, and the King of Spain. He did not eat
much, but he had such polite and amiable ways that it was impossible
to owe him a grudge for that. Oh! I was very fond of him, though he
did not say four words to me in a day, and it was impossible to have
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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: Tarzan's desire to do so, and though the shrieking was repeated
continuously, he kept his shoulder to the door until it gave
before his giant strength to swing open upon creaking wooden hinges.
Within all was black as the tomb. There was no window
to let in the faintest ray of light, and as the corridor upon
which it opened was itself in semi-darkness, even the open door
shed no relieving rays within. Feeling before him upon the floor
with the butt of his spear, Tarzan entered the Stygian gloom.
Suddenly the door behind him closed, and at the same time
hands clutched him from every direction out of the darkness.
The ape-man fought with all the savage fury of self-
The Return of Tarzan |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Main Street by Sinclair Lewis: at Sam Clark's who understood plumbing. Everybody begged
him to look over the furnace and the water-pipes. He rushed
from house to house till after bedtime--ten o'clock. Icicles
from burst water-pipes hung along the skirt of his brown dog-
skin overcoat; his plush cap, which he never took off in the
house, was a pulp of ice and coal-dust; his red hands were
cracked to rawness; he chewed the stub of a cigar.
But he was courtly to Carol. He stooped to examine the
furnace flues; he straightened, glanced down at her, and
hemmed, "Got to fix your furnace, no matter what else I do."
The poorer houses of Gopher Prairie, where the services of
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