| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Unconscious Comedians by Honore de Balzac: thing! You have seen the ballet, and you'll now see it defiling past
you in its every-day clothes, without knowing that the face of your
lawsuit depends on a pair of those legs."
"My lawsuit!"
"See, cousin, here comes what is called a marcheuse."
Leon pointed to one of those handsome creatures who at twenty-five
years of age have lived sixty, and whose beauty is so real and so sure
of being cultivated that they make no display of it. She was tall, and
walked well, with the arrogant look of a dandy; her toilet was
remarkable for its ruinous simplicity.
"That is Carabine," said Bixiou, who gave her, as did Leon, a slight
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Lamentable Tragedy of Locrine and Mucedorus by William Shakespeare: Whose jaws swell to his eyes with chawing Malice:
And him I'll make a Poet.
COMEDY.
What's that to th' purpose?
ENVY.
This scrambling Raven, with his needy Beard,
Will I whet on to write a Comedy,
Wherein shall be compos'd dark sentences,
Pleasing to factious brains:
And every other where place me a Jest,
Whose high abuse shall more torment than blows:
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Blix by Frank Norris: for me at all, you'll take it."
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The editor of the Sunday Supplement put his toothpick behind his
ear and fixed Condy with his eyeglasses.
"Well, it's like this, Rivers," he said. "Of course, you know
your own business best. If you stay on here with us, it will be
all right. But I may as well tell you that I don't believe I can
hold your place for a month. I can't get a man in here to do your
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