| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Prince of Bohemia by Honore de Balzac: " 'Well, my dear, are you satisfied with me? I did not even ask
for your hand, yet you might easily have given it to me, and I
longed so much to hold it to my heart, to my lips. No, I did not
ask, I am so afraid of displeasing you. Do you know one thing?
Though I am cruelly sure that anything I do is a matter of perfect
indifference to you, I am none the less extremely timid in my
conduct: the woman that belongs to you, whatever her title to call
herself yours, must not incur so much as the shadow of blame. In
so far as love comes from the angels in heaven, from whom are no
secrets hid, my love is as pure as the purest; wherever I am I
feel that I am in your presence, and I try to do you honor.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Sylvie and Bruno by Lewis Carroll: come back quick!" he called after the children, as they passed out into
the road. I had just time to follow them, before he shut the door
again.
We hurried down the road, and very soon caught sight of the old Beggar,
about a quarter of a mile ahead of us, and the children at once set off
running to overtake him.
Lightly and swiftly they skimmed over the ground, and I could not in
the least understand how it was I kept up with them so easily. But the
unsolved problem did not worry me so much as at another time it might
have done, there were so many other things to attend to.
The old Beggar must have been very deaf, as he paid no attention
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Miracle Mongers and Their Methods by Harry Houdini: in diameter.
The metallic dress which is superadded
to these means of defence consists of five
principal pieces, viz., a casque or cap, with
a mask large enough to leave a proper
space between it and the asbestos cap; a
cuirass with its brassets; a piece of armour
for the trunk and thighs; a pair of boots
of double wire-gauze; and an oval shield
5 feet long by 2 1/2 feet wide, made by
stretching the wire-gauze over a slender
Miracle Mongers and Their Methods |
