| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde: is why it has no future before it, in this world.
SIR ROBERT CHILTERN. And women represent the irrational.
MRS. CHEVELEY. Well-dressed women do.
SIR ROBERT CHILTERN. [With a polite bow.] I fear I could hardly
agree with you there. But do sit down. And now tell me, what makes
you leave your brilliant Vienna for our gloomy London - or perhaps
the question is indiscreet?
MRS. CHEVELEY. Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes
are.
SIR ROBERT CHILTERN. Well, at any rate, may I know if it is politics
or pleasure?
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War by Frederick A. Talbot: the British battleships as they manoeuvre at full speed up and
down the coastline, while he keeps the fire of the monitors
concentrated upon the German positions until the latter have been
rendered untenable or demolished. The accuracy of the British
gun-fire has astonished even the Germans, but it has been
directly attributable to the rangefinder perched in the car of
the captive balloon and his rapid transmission of information to
the vessels below.
The enthusiastic supporters of aerial navigation maintained that
the dirigible and the aeroplane would supersede the captive
balloon completely. But as a matter of fact the present conflict
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy: motive that guided him in the course he had re-
solved to take. But at the bottom of his heart he
was only anxious to get his revenge on the proud
atheist.
"Yes, it is very sad indeed," said Father Mi-
chael, toying with the cross he was wearing over
his priestly robes, and passing his hands over its
polished sides. "I am very glad you have given
me your confidence. As a servant of the Church
I shall admonish the young man--of course with
the utmost kindness. I shall certainly do it in
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