| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring by George Bernard Shaw: THE FIRE (an impassable obstacle to Gunther) and there
transporting himself in a single breath, by the Tarnhelm's magic,
back to the hall of the Gibichungs, leaving the real Gunther to
bring Brynhild down the river after him. One controversialist
actually pleaded for the expedition occupying two nights, on the
second of which the alleged outrage might have taken place. But
the time is accounted for to the last minute: it all takes place
during the single night watch of Hagen. There is no possible way
out of the plain fact that Brynhild's accusation is to her own
knowledge false; and the impossible ways just cited are only
interesting as examples of the fanatical worship which Wagner and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Buttered Side Down by Edna Ferber: his own."
"Oh!" said Gertie.
"And let me mention in passing," continued Gus, winding the
ribbon bow around his finger, "that in the last hour or so that
whisper has been swelling to a shout."
"Oh!" said Gertie again.
"You said it. But I couldn't buy a secondhand gas stove with
what I've saved in the last half-year here. Back home they used to
think I was a regular little village John Drew, I was so dressy.
But here I look like a yokel on circus day compared to the other
fellows in the store. All they need is a field glass strung over
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Europeans by Henry James: freshly-scented room the Baroness saw that she was looking very ill.
She was wonderfully white and transparent, and, in her flowered
arm-chair, she made no attempt to move. But she flushed a little--
like a young girl, the Baroness thought--and she rested her clear,
smiling eyes upon those of her visitor. Her voice was low and monotonous,
like a voice that had never expressed any human passions.
"I have come to bid you good-by," said Eugenia.
"I shall soon be going away."
"When are you going away?"
"Very soon--any day."
"I am very sorry," said Mrs. Acton. "I hoped you would stay--always."
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