| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from In a German Pension by Katherine Mansfield: fennel and decayed refuse streamed from the gulley, and again Andreas began
concocting a letter. He turned into the main road. The shutters were
still up before the shops. Scraps of newspaper, hay, and fruit skins
strewed the pavement; the gutters were choked with the leavings of Saturday
night. Two dogs sprawled in the middle of the road, scuffling and biting.
Only the public-house at the corner was open; a young barman slopped water
over the doorstep.
Fastidiously, his lips curling, Andreas picked his way through the water.
"Extraordinary how I am noticing things this morning. It's partly the
effect of Sunday. I loathe a Sunday when Anna's tied by the leg and the
children are away. On Sunday a man has the right to expect his family.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from When the World Shook by H. Rider Haggard: peculiar person who no doubt had ways of coming and going which
we did not understand. His point was, however, that he did not in
the least wish to visit Nyo any more. The wonders of its
underground palaces and temples had no charms for him. Also he
did not think he could do any good by going, since after "sucking
him as dry as an orange" with reference to religious matters
"that old vampire-bat Oro had just thrown him away like the
rind," and, he might add, "seemed no better for the juice he had
absorbed."
"I doubt," continued Bastin, "whether St. Paul himself could
have converted Oro, even if he performed miracles before him.
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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: first step towards agreement and peace. The other thought it
an ingenious ruse by Clemenceau to get
"so-called" socialist condemnation of the Bolsheviks as a
basis for allied intervention. Both parties were, of course,
wrong in so far as they thought the Allied Governments had
anything to do with it. Both the French and English
delegates were refused passports. This, however, was not
known in Moscow until after I left, and by then much had
happened. I think the Conference which founded the
Third International in Moscow had its origin in a desire to
counter any ill effects that might result from the expected
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