| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs: and there he saw that a boat was being lowered from the
great ship beside the one already in the water. Soon he saw
many people clambering over the sides of the larger vessel and
dropping into the boats. They were coming back in full force.
For a moment longer Tarzan watched while a number of
boxes and bundles were lowered into the waiting boats, then,
as they shoved off from the ship's side, the ape-man snatched
up a piece of paper, and with a pencil printed on it for a few
moments until it bore several lines of strong, well-made,
almost letter-perfect characters.
This notice he stuck upon the door with a small sharp
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Cousin Pons by Honore de Balzac: reared by the petty lawyer. The morning's incident had done Fraisier
good service; but for him, La Cibot in her trouble might have fallen
into the snare innocently spread by Schmucke, when he asked her to
send back the person sent by the family.
Remonencq saw Dr. Poulain coming towards them, and asked no better
than to vanish. The fact was that for the last ten days the Auvergnat
had been playing Providence in a manner singularly displeasing to
Justice, which claims the monopoly of that part. He had made up his
mind to rid himself at all costs of the one obstacle in his way to
happiness, and happiness for him meant capital trebled and marriage
with the irresistibly charming portress. He had watched the little
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert: Then the Ancients decreed the execution of the captives, although the
Suffet had written to them not to put them to death. He reckoned upon
incorporating the best of them with his own troops and of thus
instigating defections. But hatred swept away all circumspection.
The two thousand Barbarians were tied to the stelae of the tombs in
the Mappalian quarter; and traders, scullions, embroiderers, and even
women,--the widows of the dead with their children--all who would,
came to kill them with arrows. They aimed slowly at them, the better
to prolong their torture, lowering the weapon and then raising it in
turn; and the multitude pressed forward howling. Paralytics had
themselves brought thither in hand-barrows; many took the precaution
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