| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie: are different kinds of fishing. I've a good mind to stay, and
see if we can't get on the track of that young chap."
"Oh!" Tuppence clasped her hands ecstatically.
"All the same, as I said before, it's too bad of--of Carter to
set you two babies on a job like this. Now, don't get offended,
Miss--er----"
"Cowley. Prudence Cowley. But my friends call me Tuppence."
"Well, Miss Tuppence, then, as I'm certainly going to be a
friend. Don't be offended because I think you're young. Youth is
a failing only too easily outgrown. Now, about this young Tommy
of yours----"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Start in Life by Honore de Balzac: black at the end of it. Daumartin's diligence had just started,
plunging heavily after those of the Touchards. It was past eight
o'clock. Under the enormous porch or passage, above which could be
read on a long sign, "Hotel du Lion d'Argent," stood the stablemen and
porters of the coaching-lines watching the lively start of the
vehicles which deceives so many travellers, making them believe that
the horses will be kept to that vigorous gait.
"Shall I harness up, master?" asked Pierrotin's hostler, when there
was nothing more to be seen along the road.
"It is a quarter-past eight, and I don't see any travellers," replied
Pierrotin. "Where have they poked themselves? Yes, harness up all the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Life of the Spider by J. Henri Fabre: the second is plainly visible. The Spider shifts her position with
great slanting strides, turns a few times, moving farther and
farther from the centre, fixes her line each time to the spoke
which she crosses and at last comes to a stop at the lower edge of
the frame. She has described a spiral with coils of rapidly-
increasing width. The average distance between the coils, even in
the structures of the young Epeirae, is one centimetre. {29}
Let us not be misled by the word 'spiral,' which conveys the notion
of a curved line. All curves are banished from the Spiders' work;
nothing is used but the straight line and its combinations. All
that is aimed at is a polygonal line drawn in a curve as geometry
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