| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Unconscious Comedians by Honore de Balzac: to bring him--his name is Gazonal--to supper, entreating you to leave
him his full senses."
"That's as monsieur pleases; wine is dear," said Carabine, looking
Gazonal over from head to foot, and thinking him in no way remarkable.
Gazonal, bewildered by the toilets, the lights, the gilding, the
chatter of the various groups whom he thought to be discussing him,
could only manage to stammer out the words: "Madame--madame--is--very
good."
"What do you manufacture?" said the mistress of the house, laughing.
"Say laces and offer her some guipure," whispered Bixiou in Gazonal's
ear.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The American by Henry James: which had apparently been committed to his keeping;
and the little dog's blue ribbon was wound tightly round his hand.
There was no expression of recognition in his face--
or of anything indeed save a sort of feeble, fascinated dread;
Newman looked at the pug and the lace mantilla, and then he met
the old man's eyes again. "You know me, I see," he pursued.
"You might have spoken to me before." M. Nioche still said nothing,
but it seemed to Newman that his eyes began faintly to water.
"I didn't expect," our hero went on, "to meet you so far from--
from the Cafe de la Patrie." The old man remained silent,
but decidedly Newman had touched the source of tears.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pathology of Lying, Etc. by William and Mary Healy: had ruminated much over these matters. Her story about frequent
fainting attacks given at this time was not corroborated by
observation. The diagnosis from one hospital was neurasthenia,
but investigation of her case in most places seems to have led
merely to the conclusion that she was a tremendous liar.
Notwithstanding our long record of this case and the accounts
which have been handed in to us of experiences with her in other
localities, we do not presume to know a tithe of the places Inez
has been to or lived in during the last eight years. It is more
than likely that she herself would find it difficult to give any
accurate account of her rovings. At the time we first saw Inez
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