| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from An Unsocial Socialist by George Bernard Shaw: hardihood, stopped and stared with indignant surprise as Smilash
lurched past him.
"Is that man here by your permission?" he said to Farmer Wickens,
who was walking about as if superintending a harvest.
"He is here because he likes, I take it," said Wickens
stubbornly. "He is a neighbor of mine and a friend of mine. Is
there any objections to my having a friend on my own pond, seein'
that there is nigh on two or three ton of other people's friends
on it 108 without as much as a with-your-leave or a by-your-
leave."
"Oh, no," said Fairholme, somewhat dashed. "If you are satisfied
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Princess by Alfred Tennyson: A kingdom topples over with a shriek
Like an old woman, and down rolls the world
In mock heroics stranger than our own;
Revolts, republics, revolutions, most
No graver than a schoolboys' barring out;
Too comic for the serious things they are,
Too solemn for the comic touches in them,
Like our wild Princess with as wise a dream
As some of theirs--God bless the narrow seas!
I wish they were a whole Atlantic broad.'
'Have patience,' I replied, 'ourselves are full
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from When the World Shook by H. Rider Haggard: Osiris, wearing the crown of the Upper Land with the uraeus
crest, and holding in his hands, which projected from the mummy
wrappings, the emblems of the crook, the scourge and the crux
ansata, or Sign of Life.
Bastin, for his part, arrayed himself in full clerical costume,
black coat and trousers, white tie and stick-up clergyman's
collar which, as he remarked, made him feel extremely hot in that
climate, and were unsuitable to domestic duties, such as
washing-up. I offered to hold his coat while he did this office
and told him he looked very nice indeed.
"Beautiful!" remarked Bickley, "but why don't you put on your
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