| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay: genuine representative of a strange planet. Her frame also had
something curious about it. The curves were womanly, the bones were
characteristically female - yet all seemed somehow to express a
daring, masculine underlying will. The commanding eye on her
forehead set the same puzzle in plainer language. Its bold,
domineering egotism was shot with undergleams of sex and softness.
She came to the river's edge and reviewed him from top to toe. "Now
you are built more like a man," she said, in her lovely, lingering
voice.
"You see, the experiment was successful," he answered, smiling gaily.
Oceaxe continued looking him over. "Did some woman give you that
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Eugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac: he now was, he would find all hearts indifferent or cold. Eugenie thus
appeared to him in the splendor of a special beauty, and from
thenceforth he admired the innocence of life and manners which the
previous evening he had been inclined to ridicule. So when Eugenie
took from Nanon the bowl of coffee and cream, and began to pour it out
for her cousin with the simplicity of real feeling, giving him a
kindly glance, the eyes of the Parisian filled with tears; he took her
hand and kissed it.
"What troubles you?" she said.
"Oh! these are tears of gratitude," he answered.
Eugenie turned abruptly to the chimney-piece to take the candlesticks.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Touchstone by Edith Wharton: difficulties; a sense of dull resignation closed in on him like a
fog.
"Hullo, Glennard!" a voice said, as an electric-car, late that
afternoon, dropped him at an uptown corner.
He looked up and met the interrogative smile of Barton Flamel, who
stood on the curbstone watching the retreating car with the eye of
a man philosophic enough to remember that it will be followed by
another.
Glennard felt his usual impulse of pleasure at meeting Flamel; but
it was not in this case curtailed by the reaction of contempt that
habitually succeeded it. Probably even the few men who had known
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