| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Commission in Lunacy by Honore de Balzac: provincial Court of the same class, as he went forward bowing to the
Judge and the President, Popinot could not repress an ironical smile.
This pale, fair young man, full of covert ambition, looked ready to
hang and unhang, at the pleasure of any earthy king, the innocent and
the guilty alike, and to follow the example of a Laubardemont rather
than that of a Mole.
Popinot withdrew with a bow; he scorned to deny the lying accusation
that had been brought against him.
PARIS, February 1836.
ADDENDUM
The following personages appear in other stories of the Human Comedy.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 2 by Alexis de Toqueville: ways, upon the public. The evil does not appear to me to be
susceptible of entire cure, because it not only originates in the
tactics of that assembly, but in its constitution and in that of
the country. The inhabitants of the United States seem themselves
to consider the matter in this light; and they show their long
experience of parliamentary life not by abstaining from making
bad speeches, but by courageously submitting to hear them made.
They are resigned to it, as to an evil which they know to be
inevitable.
We have shown the petty side of political debates in
democratic assemblies - let us now exhibit the more imposing one.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Blix by Frank Norris: whole sweet personality. And he loved her because she was
herself, because she was Blix, because of that strange, sweet
influence that was disengaged from her in those quiet moments when
she seemed so close to him, when some unnamed, mysterious sixth
sense in him stirred and woke and told him of her goodness, of her
clean purity and womanliness; and that certain, vague tenderness
in him went out toward her, a tenderness not for her only, but for
all the good things of the world; and he felt his nobler side
rousing up and the awakening of the desire to be his better self.
Covertly he looked at her, as she sat near him, her yellow hair
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