| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay: dropped into the sea. By the time he had swam ashore, the white,
stupendous sun was high above the horizon.
He walked along the sands toward the east for a considerable
distance, without having any special intention in his mind. He
thought he would go on until he came to some creek or valley, and
then turn up it. The sun's rays were cheering, and began to relieve
him of his oppressive night weight. After strolling along the beach
for about a mile, he was stopped by a broad stream that flowed into
the sea out of a kind of natural gateway in the line of cliffs. Its
water was of a beautiful, limpid green, all filled with bubbles. So
ice-cold, aerated, and enticing did it look that he flung himself
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Chance by Joseph Conrad: the bottom with their wives and children."
From this point the conversation took a special turn relating
exclusively to sea-life. On that subject he got quickly in touch
with Marlow who in his time had followed the sea. They kept up a
lively exchange of reminiscences while I listened. They agreed that
the happiest time in their lives was as youngsters in good ships,
with no care in the world but not to lose a watch below when at sea
and not a moment's time in going ashore after work hours when in
harbour. They agreed also as to the proudest moment they had known
in that calling which is never embraced on rational and practical
grounds, because of the glamour of its romantic associations. It
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Commission in Lunacy by Honore de Balzac: marshal's baton, nor a post as governor, nor any indemnity; King
Charles IX., who was fond of him, died without being able to reward
him; Henri IV. arranged his marriage with Mademoiselle d'Espard, and
secured him the estates of that house, but all those of the
Negrepelisses had already passed into the hands of his creditors.
"My great-grandfather, the Marquis d'Espard, was, like me, placed
early in life at the head of his family by the death of his father,
who, after dissipating his wife's fortune, left his son nothing but
the entailed estates of the d'Espards, burdened with a jointure. The
young Marquis was all the more straitened for money because he held a
post at Court. Being in great favor with Louis XIV., the King's
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