| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Illustrious Gaudissart by Honore de Balzac: sent into the provinces on an enterprise of the utmost importance,
undertaken by bankers who--"
"Who mean to win our tricks," said Vernier, long used to the ways of
commercial travellers and to their periodical visits.
"Precisely," replied Gaudissart, with native impudence. "But with your
fine tact, Monsieur, you must be aware that we can't win tricks from
people unless it is their interest to play at cards. I beg you not to
confound me with the vulgar herd of travellers who succeed by humbug
or importunity. I am no longer a commercial traveller. I was one, and
I glory in it; but to-day my mission is of higher importance, and
should place me, in the minds of superior people, among those who
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: housekeeper and the maid having meanwhile returned - I began to
mutter in English.
"- of the orthodox economists of that period,
Jevons typifies the prevailing trend toward scientific correlation.
His attempt to link the commercial cycle of prosperity and depression
with the physical cycle of the solar spots forms perhaps the apex
of -"
Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee had come back - a spirit in
whose time scale it was still Thursday morning in 1908, with the
economics class gazing up at the battered desk on the platform.
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Shadow out of Time |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Modeste Mignon by Honore de Balzac: herself the giver of material comfort to these great men, martyrs to
their own faculty. This noble compassion, this intuition of the
struggles of toilers, this worship of genius, are among the choicest
perceptions that flutter through the souls of women. They are, in the
first place, a secret between the woman and God, for they are hidden;
in them there is nothing striking, nothing that gratifies the vanity,
--that powerful auxiliary to all action among the French.
Out of this third period of the development of her ideas, there came
to Modeste a passionate desire to penetrate to the heart of one of
these abnormal beings; to understand the working of the thoughts and
the hidden griefs of genius,--to know not only what it wanted but what
Modeste Mignon |
