| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Bureaucracy by Honore de Balzac: eyes grew big as saucers.
"Farewell, monsieur," said Rabourdin at last, with a manner that was
half-solemn, half-satirical.
Sebastien meanwhile had made up a package of papers and letters
belonging to his chief and had carried them away in a hackney coach.
Rabourdin passed through the grand courtyard, while all the clerks
were watching from the windows, and waited there a moment to see if
the minister would send him any message. His Excellency was dumb.
Phellion courageously escorted the fallen man to his home, expressing
his feelings of respectful admiration; then he returned to the office,
and took up his work, satisfied with his own conduct in rendering
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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: was D'Arnot.
"Paul!" he cried. "In the name of sanity what are you
doing here? Or are we all insane?"
It was quickly explained, however, as were many other
seemingly strange things. D'Arnot's ship had been cruising
along the coast, on patrol duty, when at the lieutenant's
suggestion they had anchored off the little landlocked harbor
to have another look at the cabin and the jungle in which
many of the officers and men had taken part in exciting
adventures two years before. On landing they had found Lord
Tennington's party, and arrangements were being made to
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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 received. His dawning recognition of the
power and extent of female influence appears in-
cidentally in the sketches of high society in those
two masterpieces as well as in the eloquent closing
passages of "What then must we do?" (1886).
Having affirmed that "it is women who form pub-
lic opinion, and in our day women are particu-
larly powerful," he finally draws a picture of the
ideal wife who shall urge her husband and train
her children to self-sacrifice. "Such women rule
men and are their guiding stars. O women--
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