| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Unconscious Comedians by Honore de Balzac: "Is there any use, my dear fellow," said Bixiou, "in going through
this operation of the little scissors?"
"No head ever comes to me uncleansed," replied the illustrious hair-
dresser; "but for your sake, I will do that of monsieur myself,
wholly. My pupils sketch out the scheme, or my strength would not hold
out. Every one says as you do: 'Dressed by Marius!' Therefore, I can
give only the finishing strokes. What journal is monsieur on?"
"If I were you, I should keep three or four Mariuses," said Gazonal.
"Ah! monsieur, I see, is a feuilletonist," said Marius. "Alas! in
dressing heads which expose us to notice it is impossible. Excuse me!"
He left Gazonal to overlook Regulus, who was "preparing" a newly
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Heritage of the Desert by Zane Grey: the escape of the girl. Hare stood there on the bench, gazing down on
the blanketed Holderness. Why not kill him now, ending forever his
power, and trust to chance for the rest? No, no! Hare flung the
temptation from him. To ward off pursuit as long as possible, to aid
Mescal in every way to some safe hiding-place, and then to seek
Holderness--that was the forethought of a man who had learned to wait.
Under the dark projection of the upper cliff Hare felt his way to the
cedar slope, and the trail, and then he went swiftly down into the little
hollow where he had left Bolly. The darkness of the forest hindered him,
but he came at length to the edge of the aspen thicket; he penetrated it,
and guided toward Bolly by a suspicious stamp and neigh, he found her and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton: solitude awaiting her when Evelina left. It was true that it would
be a tempered loneliness. They would not be far apart. Evelina
would "run in" daily from the clock-maker's; they would doubtless
take supper with her on Sundays. But already Ann Eliza guessed
with what growing perfunctoriness her sister would fulfill
these obligations; she even foresaw the day when, to get news of
Evelina, she should have to lock the shop at nightfall and go
herself to Mr. Ramy's door. But on that contingency she would not
dwell. "They can come to me when they want to--they'll always find
me here," she simply said to herself.
One evening Evelina came in flushed and agitated from her
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