| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Catherine de Medici by Honore de Balzac: that with marked favor and made a devoted friend of him.
Historians have compared the last Duc de Montmorency, beheaded at
Toulouse, to the Vidame de Chartres, in the art of pleasing, in
attainments, accomplishments, and talent. Henri II. showed no
jealousy; he seemed not even to suppose that a queen of France could
fail in her duty, or a Medici forget the honor done to her by a
Valois. But during this time when the queen was, it is said,
coquetting with the Vidame de Chartres, the king, after the birth of
her last child, had virtually abandoned her. This attempt at making
him jealous was to no purpose, for Henri died wearing the colors of
Diane de Poitiers.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: who are the slaves of the monstrous moon-things! They were indeed
the same dark folk who had shanghaied Carter on their noisome
galley so long ago, and whose kith he had seen driven in herds
about the unclean wharves of that accursed lunar city, with the
leaner ones toiling and the fatter ones taken away in crates for
other needs of their polypous and amorphous masters. Now he saw
where such ambiguous creatures came from, and shuddered at the
thought that Leng must be known to these formless abominations
from the moon.
But the Shantak flew on past the fires and the
stone huts and the less than human dancers, and soared over sterile
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Village Rector by Honore de Balzac: against yourself and thus injuring you.
Your second request, namely, for a man capable of understanding
and seconding your projects, requires me to find you a /rara avis/
such as we seldom raise in the provinces, where, if we do raise
them, we never keep them. The education of that high product is
too slow and too risky a speculation for country folks.
Besides, men of intellect alarm us; we call them "originals." The
men belonging to the scientific category from which you will have
to obtain your co-operator do not flourish here, and I was on the
point of writing to you that I despaired of fulfilling your
commission. You want a poet, a man of ideas,--in short, what we
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