| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Gambara by Honore de Balzac: outside things; his mind was more capable of addressing itself to
several points at a time.
Andrea, who took an artistic interest in his semi-medical treatment,
thought at last that the time had come for a great experiment. He
would give a dinner at his own house, to which he would invite
Giardini for the sake of keeping the tragedy and the parody side by
side, and afterwards take the party to the first performance of
/Robert le Diable/. He had seen it in rehearsal, and he judged it well
fitted to open his patient's eyes.
By the end of the second course, Gambara was already tipsy, laughing
at himself with a very good grace; while Giardini confessed that his
Gambara |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Travels and Researches in South Africa by Dr. David Livingstone: formerly alight@mercury.interpath.net). To assure a high quality text,
the original was typed in (manually) twice and electronically compared.
[Note on text: Italicized words or phrases are CAPITALIZED.
Some obvious errors have been corrected.]
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa.
Also called, Travels and Researches in South Africa;
or, Journeys and Researches in South Africa.
By David Livingstone [British (Scot) Missionary and Explorer--1813-1873.]
David Livingstone was born in Scotland, received his medical degree
from the University of Glasgow, and was sent to South Africa
by the London Missionary Society. Circumstances led him to try to meet
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Russia in 1919 by Arthur Ransome: in for them, on the understanding that they would eventually
pay him back." This was illegal, but the little town was a
long way from the centre of things, and it seemed a good
way out of the difficulty. He did not expect to get it back,
but he hoped in this way to keep control of the tannery,
which he wished to develop, having a paternal interest in it.
Things worked very well. They elected a committee of
control. "Uncle was elected president, I was elected
vice-president, and there were three workmen. We are
working on those lines to this day. They give uncle 1,500
roubles a month, me a thousand, and the bookkeeper a
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