| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Firm of Nucingen by Honore de Balzac: seven millions, consigned to the firm of Nucingen, were lying in the
river.
"Then it was plain to Palma, Werbrust, and du Tillet that the trick
had been played. Nobody else was any the wiser. The three scholars
studied the means by which the great bubble had been created, saw that
it had been preparing for eleven months, and pronounced Nucingen the
greatest financier in Europe.
"Rastignac understood nothing of all this, but he had the four hundred
thousand francs which Nucingen had allowed him to shear from the
Parisian sheep, and he portioned his sisters. D'Aiglemont, at a hint
from his cousin Beaudenord, besought Rastignac to accept ten per cent
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad: who have."
She avoided using the verb "to steal," because it always made her
brother uncomfortable. For Stevie was delicately honest. Certain
simple principles had been instilled into him so anxiously (on
account of his "queerness") that the mere names of certain
transgressions filled him with horror. He had been always easily
impressed by speeches. He was impressed and startled now, and his
intelligence was very alert.
"What?" he asked at once anxiously. "Not even if they were hungry?
Mustn't they?"
The two had paused in their walk.
The Secret Agent |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from End of the Tether by Joseph Conrad: treated him to an incomprehensible grin of white teeth
out of his grimy hard face; Massy was nowhere to be
seen. He must have gone straight into his berth.
Sterne scratched at the door softly, then, putting his
lips to the rose of the ventilator, said--
"I must speak to you, Mr. Massy. Just give me a
minute or two."
"I am busy. Go away from my door."
"But pray, Mr. Massy . . ."
"You go away. D'you hear? Take yourself off alto-
gether--to the other end of the ship--quite away . . ."
End of the Tether |
