| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Vicar of Tours by Honore de Balzac: years of the Abbe Birotteau.
For want of exercising in nature's own way the activity bestowed upon
women, and yet impelled to spend it in some way or other, Mademoiselle
Gamard had acquired the habit of using it in petty intrigues,
provincial cabals, and those self-seeking schemes which occupy, sooner
or later, the lives of all old maids. Birotteau, unhappily, had
developed in Sophie Gamard the only sentiments which it was possible
for that poor creature to feel,--those of hatred; a passion hitherto
latent under the calmness and monotony of provincial life, but which
was now to become the more intense because it was spent on petty
things and in the midst of a narrow sphere. Birotteau was one of those
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Red Inn by Honore de Balzac: at which they were required to begin their functions, they had
travelled by diligence to Strasburg. Though maternal prudence had only
allowed them a slender sum of money they thought themselves rich in
possessing a few louis, an actual treasure in those days when
assignats were reaching their lowest depreciation and gold was worth
far more than silver. The two young surgeons, about twenty years of
age at the most, yielded themselves up to the poesy of their situation
with all the enthusiasm of youth. Between Strasburg and Bonn they had
visited the Electorate and the banks of the Rhine as artists,
philosophers, and observers. When a man's destiny is scientific he is,
at their age, a being who is truly many-sided. Even in making love or
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: "And again, the way of life of human beings, not being maintained like
that of cattle[20] in the open air, obviously demands roofed
homesteads. But if these same human beings are to have anything to
bring in under cover, some one to carry out these labours of the field
under high heaven[21] must be found them, since such operations as the
breaking up of fallow with the plough, the sowing of seed, the
planting of trees, the pasturing and herding of flocks, are one and
all open-air employments on which the supply of products necessary to
life depends.
[20] "And the beast of the field."
[21] "Sub dis," "in the open air."
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