| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain: 'I judge the upper bar is making down a little at Hale's Point;
had quarter twain with the lower lead and mark twain with the other.'
'Yes, I thought it was making down a little, last trip.
Meet any boats?'
'Met one abreast the head of 21, but she was away over hugging the bar,
and I couldn't make her out entirely. I took her for the "Sunny South"--
hadn't any skylights forward of the chimneys.'
And so on. And as the relieving pilot took the wheel his
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The First Men In The Moon by H. G. Wells: with white chimneys you see just over the trees. And my circumstances are
abnormal - abnormal. I am on the point of completing one of the most
important - demonstrations - I can assure you one of the most important
demonstrations that have ever been made. It requires constant thought,
constant mental ease and activity. And the afternoon was my brightest
time! - effervescing with new ideas - new points of view."
"But why not come by still?"
"It would be all different. I should be self-conscious. I should think of
you at your play -watching me irritated - instead of thinking of my work.
Oh! I must have the bungalow."
I meditated. Naturally, I wanted to think the matter over thoroughly
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Cousin Pons by Honore de Balzac: concentrated greed looked out of those dull blue circles, though in
his case the false humility that masks the Hebrew's unfathomed
contempt for the Gentile was lacking.
The relations between the Cibots and the Remonencqs were those of
benefactors and recipients. Mme. Cibot, convinced that the Auvergnats
were wretchedly poor, used to let them have the remainder of "her
gentlemen's" dinners at ridiculous prices. The Remonencqs would buy a
pound of broken bread, crusts and crumbs, for a farthing, a porringer-
full of cold potatoes for something less, and other scraps in
proportion. Remonencq shrewdly allowed them to believe that he was not
in business on his own account, he worked for Monistrol, the rich
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