| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Phantasmagoria and Other Poems by Lewis Carroll: practised writer, with the slightest ear for rhythm, could compose,
for hours together, in the easy running metre of 'The Song of
Hiawatha.' Having, then, distinctly stated that I challenge no
attention in the following little poem to its merely verbal jingle,
I must beg the candid reader to confine his criticism to its
treatment of the subject.]
FROM his shoulder Hiawatha
Took the camera of rosewood,
Made of sliding, folding rosewood;
Neatly put it all together.
In its case it lay compactly,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas: will never see anything like that."
"You are very hard upon the king, my dear Monsieur
d'Artagnan; and yet you scarcely know him."
"I! Listen, Raoul. Day by day, hour by hour, -- take note of
my words, -- I will predict what he will do. The cardinal
being dead, he will fret; very well, that is the least silly
thing he will do, particularly if he does not shed a tear."
"And then?"
"Why then he will get M. Fouquet to allow him a pension, and
will go and compose verses at Fontainebleau, upon some
Mancini or other, whose eyes the queen will scratch out. She
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton: ever saw of him." She broke off with a laugh and began to cough
again.
Ann Eliza tried to persuade her to lie down and sleep, but the
rest of her story had to be told before she could be soothed into
consent. After the news of Ramy's flight she had had brain fever,
and had been sent to another hospital where she stayed a long
time--how long she couldn't remember. Dates and days meant nothing
to her in the shapeless ruin of her life. When she left the
hospital she found that Mrs. Hochmuller had gone too. She was
penniless, and had no one to turn to. A lady visitor at the
hospital was kind, and found her a place where she did housework;
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