| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells: The artilleryman looked at me for a moment.
"There won't be any more blessed concerts for a million
years or so; there won't be any Royal Academy of Arts, and
no nice little feeds at restaurants. If it's amusement you're
after, I reckon the game is up. If you've got any drawing-
room manners or a dislike to eating peas with a knife or
dropping aitches, you'd better chuck 'em away. They ain't
no further use."
"You mean----"
"I mean that men like me are going on living--for the
sake of the breed. I tell you, I'm grim set on living. And if
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Message by Honore de Balzac: remain young, no doubt, to understand youth.
Well, we understood one another to admiration on all the
essential points of passion. We had laid it down as an axiom at
the very outset, that in theory and practice there was no such
piece of driveling nonsense in this world as a certificate of
birth; that plenty of women were younger at forty than many a
girl of twenty; and, to come to the point, that a woman is no
older than she looks.
This theory set no limits to the age of love, so we struck out,
in all good faith, into a boundless sea. At length, when we had
portrayed our mistresses as young, charming, and devoted to us,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Catherine de Medici by Honore de Balzac: monsieur," said Mary to the young king, enchanted with the opportunity
of deciding in the absence of the queen-mother so important a question
as the lieutenant-generalship of the kingdom.
Mary Stuart took the king's arm. Dayelle went out before them,
whispering to the pages; one of whom (it was young Teligny, who
afterwards perished so miserably during the Saint-Bartholomew) cried
out:--
"The king!"
Hearing the words, the two soldiers of the guard presented arms, and
the two pages went forward to the door of the Council-room through the
lane of courtiers and that of the maids of honor of the two queens.
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