| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Bureaucracy by Honore de Balzac: delight] "--when" [full stop] "--I know where I am and what I can rely
on. If you don't succeed I shall lose my place, and I must make a
living. You are a curious kind of innocent still, my dear colleague."
Dutocq. "Well, you needn't make the lithograph till success is
proved."
Bixiou. "Why don't you come out and tell me the whole truth?"
Dutocq. "I must first see how the land lays in the bureau; we will
talk about it later" [goes off].
Bixiou [alone in the corridor]. "That fish, for he's more a fish than
a bird, that Dutocq has a good idea in his head--I'm sure I don't know
where he stole it. If Baudoyer should succeed La Billardiere it would
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tales of Unrest by Joseph Conrad: the funny brute!"
Carlier, smoking native tobacco in a short wooden pipe, would swagger
up twirling his moustaches, and surveying the warriors with haughty
indulgence, would say--
"Fine animals. Brought any bone? Yes? It's not any too soon. Look at
the muscles of that fellow third from the end. I wouldn't care to get
a punch on the nose from him. Fine arms, but legs no good below the
knee. Couldn't make cavalry men of them." And after glancing down
complacently at his own shanks, he always concluded: "Pah! Don't they
stink! You, Makola! Take that herd over to the fetish" (the storehouse
was in every station called the fetish, perhaps because of the spirit
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: dispensary at the end of the corridor, and there, all alone, she
found the medical assistant, a tall man, with a blotchy face, who
had for a long time been bothering her. In trying to get away
from him Maslova gave him such a push that he knocked his head
against a shelf, from which two bottles fell and broke. The head
doctor, who was passing at that moment, heard the sound of
breaking glass, and saw Maslova run out, quite red, and shouted
to her:
"Ah, my good woman, if you start intriguing here, I'll send you
about your business. What is the meaning of it?" he went on,
addressing the medical assistant, and looking at him over his
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