| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis: "No," says she, "he fell off of it. And I'm think-
ing you don't know what it is yourself." And the
next thing I know I'm eased out o' the back door
and she's grinning at me scornful through the
crack of it.
So I was walking slow around toward the front
of the house thinking how the Irish was a great
nation, and what shall I do now, anyhow? And
I says to myself: "Danny, you was a fool to let
that circus walk off and leave you asleep in this
here town with nothing over you but a barbed wire
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Letters from England by Elizabeth Davis Bancroft: . . Mr. Emerson has just come to London and we give him a dinner on
Tuesday, the 14th. Several persons wish much to see him, and
Monckton Milnes reviewed him in BLACKWOOD.
LETTER: To W.D.B.
LONDON, March 11, 1848
Dear W.: . . . Yesterday we dined at Lord Lansdowne's. Among the
guests were M. and Madam Van de Weyer, and Mrs. Austin, the
translatress, who has been driven over here from Paris, where she
has resided for several years. She is a vehement friend of
Guizot's, though a bitter accuser of Louis Philippe, but how can
they be separated? She interests herself strongly now in all his
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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: once more bent over his endless calculations.
Yva beckoned to us and we turned and followed her down the
hall. She led us to a street near the gateway of the temple and
thence into one of the houses. There was a portico to it leading
to a court out of which opened rooms somewhat in the Pompeian
fashion. We did not enter the rooms, for at the end of the court
were a metal table and three couches also of metal, on which were
spread rich-looking rugs. Whence these came I do not know and
never asked, but I remember that they were very beautiful and
soft as velvet.
"Here you may sleep," she said, "if sleep you can, and eat of
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