| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Maitre Cornelius by Honore de Balzac: years extraordinary events had happened in his house, which had made
him the object of general execration. On his first arrival, he had
spent considerable sums in order to put the treasures he brought with
him in safety. The strange inventions made for him secretly by the
locksmiths of the town, the curious precautions taken in bringing
those locksmiths to his house in a way to compel their silence, were
long the subject of countless tales which enlivened the evening
gatherings of the city. These singular artifices on the part of the
old man made every one suppose him the possessor of Oriental riches.
Consequently the NARRATORS of that region--the home of the tale in
France--built rooms full of gold and precious tones in the Fleming's
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: of reason.
Her kind believed that in the center of all-pervading
solidity there was a single, vast, spherical cavity, which
was Pellucidar. This cavity had been left there for the
sole purpose of providing a place for the creation and
propagation of the Mahar race. Everything within it
had been put there for the uses of the Mahar.
I wondered what this particular Mahar might think
now. I found pleasure in speculating upon just what
the effect had been upon her of passing through the
earth's crust, and coming out into a world that one of
Pellucidar |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Poems by Bronte Sisters: So I knew that he was dead.
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The linnet in the rocky dells,
The moor-lark in the air,
The bee among the heather bells
That hide my lady fair:
The wild deer browse above her breast;
The wild birds raise their brood;
And they, her smiles of love caressed,
Have left her solitude!
I ween, that when the grave's dark wall
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