| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Life of the Spider by J. Henri Fabre: object be to sit motionless for hours, revelling in the light and
heat, or to pounce upon the passing prey.
Around the orifice of the burrow rises, to a greater or lesser
height, a circular parapet, formed of tiny pebbles, twigs and
straps borrowed from the dry leaves of the neighbouring grasses,
all more or less dexterously tied together and cemented with silk.
This work of rustic architecture is never missing, even though it
be no more than a mere pad.
When she reaches maturity and is once settled, the Lycosa becomes
eminently domesticated. I have been living in close communion with
her for the last three years. I have installed her in large
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Voyage to Abyssinia by Father Lobo: not reflect that a man who could fail in his duty to his King, his
father-in-law, and his benefactor, might, without scruple, do the
same to a stranger, though distinguished as his friend; and thus
sanguine and unsuspecting continued my journey, still receiving
intimation from all parts to take care of myself. At length, when I
was within a few days' journey of the viceroy, I received a billet
in more plain and express terms than anything I had been told yet,
charging me with extreme imprudence in putting myself into the hands
of those men who had undoubtedly sworn to cut me off.
I began, upon this, to distrust the sincerity of the viceroy's
professions, and resolved, upon the receipt of another letter from
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy: had suffered from his brother, and how he now
lived on his own allotment of land, separated from
that of his brother.
"I thought I should have been better off that
way," he said. "But I am now just as poor as
before."
"It is much better never to change, but to take
life as it comes," said Maria Semenovna. "Take
life as it comes," she repeated.
"Why, I wonder at you, Maria Semenovna,"
said the lame tailor. "You alone do the work,
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