| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Second Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling: That, with the freedom of hunting on their own account,
must have helped to cure their madness. They were very sober.
The girl pushed the two shamefaced creatures towards Kotuko,
and, sobbing with laughter, cried, "That is Quiquern, who led
us to safe ground. Look at his eight legs and double head!"
Kotuko cut them free, and they fell into his arms, yellow and
black together, trying to explain how they had got their senses
back again. Kotuko ran a hand down their ribs, which were round
and well clothed. "They have found food," he said, with a grin.
"I do not think we shall go to Sedna so soon. My tornaq sent
these. The sickness has left them."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson: their ramparts not two years before. Such public sentiment
as they had centred about their dear Duke of Burgundy, and
the dear Duke had no more urgent business than to keep out of
their neighbourhood. . . . At least, and whether he liked it
or not, our disreputable troubadour was tubbed and swaddled
as a subject of the English crown.
(1) BOUGEOIS DE PARIS, ed. Pantheon, pp. 688, 689.
We hear nothing of Villon's father except that he was poor
and of mean extraction. His mother was given piously, which
does not imply very much in an old Frenchwoman, and quite
uneducated. He had an uncle, a monk in an abbey at Angers,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Juana by Honore de Balzac: reputation, he had, nevertheless, that sort of chivalrous honor which
excuses, in the army, the worst excesses. In a word, he would have
been, at an earlier period, an admirable pirate. A few days before his
death he distinguished himself by a daring action which the marechal
wished to reward. Bianchi refused rank, pension, and additional
decoration, asking, for sole recompense, the favor of being the first
to mount the breach at the assault on Tarragona. The marechal granted
the request and then forgot his promise; but Bianchi forced him to
remember Bianchi. The enraged hero was the first to plant our flag on
the wall, where he was shot by a monk.
This historical digression was necessary, in order to explain how it
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