| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley: moulding, measuring, chiselling, clipping, and so forth, as men do
when they go to work to make anything.
But, instead of that, she sat quite still with her chin upon her
hand, looking down into the sea with two great grand blue eyes, as
blue as the sea itself. Her hair was as white as the snow - for
she was very very old - in fact, as old as anything which you are
likely to come across, except the difference between right and
wrong.
And, when she saw Tom, she looked at him very kindly.
"What do you want, my little man? It is long since I have seen a
water-baby here."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Simple Soul by Gustave Flaubert: cracks in the walls and threw stones that fell on his miserable bed,
where he lay gasping with catarrh, with long hair, inflamed eyelids,
and a tumour as big as his head on one arm.
She got him some linen, tried to clean his hovel and dreamed of
installing him in the bake-house without his being in Madame's way.
When the cancer broke, she dressed it every day; sometimes she brought
him some cake and placed him in the sun on a bundle of hay; and the
poor old creature, trembling and drooling, would thank her in his
broken voice, and put out his hands whenever she left him. Finally he
died; and she had a mass said for the repose of his soul.
That day a great joy came to her: at dinner-time, Madame de
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Salome by Oscar Wilde: Seigneur.
HERODE. Pas de Cesar?
LE PREMIER NAZAREEN. Non, Seigneur.
HERODE. De qui donc a-t-il parle?
LE PREMIER NAZAREEN. Du Messie qui est venu.
UN JUIF. Le Messie n'est pas venu.
LE PREMIER NAZAREEN. Il est venu, et il fait des miracles partout.
HERODIAS. Oh! Oh! les miracles. Je ne crois pas aux miracles.
J'en ai vu trop. [Au page.] Mon eventail.
LE PREMIER NAZAREEN. Cet homme fait de veritables miracles. Ainsi,
e l'occasion d'un mariage qui a eu lieu dans une petite ville de
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