| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from One Basket by Edna Ferber: her own face. She burst into tears, turned, and ran. And as she
ran, and as she wept, she saw that Chet was still standing there,
looking after her.
Next morning, when Stasia Rourke went by to work, Chet Ball was
standing at the foot of the pole, waiting.
They were to have been married that next June. But that next
June Chet Ball, perched perilously on the branch of a tree in a
small woodsy spot somewhere in France, was one reason why the
American artillery in that same woodsy spot was getting such a
deadly range on the enemy. Chet's costume was so devised that
even through field glasses (made in Germany) you couldn't tell
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Scenes from a Courtesan's Life by Honore de Balzac: the postmark, which showed the hours of posting and delivery, as well
at the date of the day. And this letter, left for Lucien the day after
Esther's death, had beyond a doubt been written and posted on the day
of the catastrophe. Monsieur Camusot's amazement may therefore be
imagined when he read this letter written and signed by her whom the
law believed to have been the victim of a crime:--
"ESTHER TO LUCIEN.
MONDAY, May 13th, 1830.
"My last day; ten in the morning.
"MY LUCIEN,--I have not an hour to live. At eleven o'clock I shall
be dead, and I shall die without a pang. I have paid fifty
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: what wonderful questions we have got answered, which all grew out
of the first question, How were the heather-moors made? And yet
we have not talked about a hundredth part of the things about
which these very heather-moors ought to set us thinking. But so
it is, child. Those who wish honestly to learn the laws of Madam
How, which we call Nature, by looking honestly at what she does,
which we call Fact, have only to begin by looking at the very
smallest thing, pin's head or pebble, at their feet, and it may
lead them--whither, they cannot tell. To answer any one question,
you find you must answer another; and to answer that you must
answer a third, and then a fourth; and so on for ever and ever.
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