| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Misalliance by George Bernard Shaw: mother will have it fetched.
JOHNNY. Not her business, exactly, is it?
BENTLEY. _[returning to the pavilion]_ Of course not. Thats why one
loves her for doing it. Look here: chuck away your silly week-end
novel, and talk to a chap. After a week in that filthy office my
brain is simply blue-mouldy. Lets argue about something intellectual.
_[He throws himself into the wicker chair on Johnny's right]._
JOHNNY. _[straightening up in the swing with a yell of protest]_ No.
Now seriously, Bunny, Ive come down here to have a pleasant week-end;
and I'm not going to stand your confounded arguments. If you want to
argue, get out of this and go over to the Congregationalist
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: consequences looked for, the career is not devoid of
interest. You have, besides, some of the entertainment of
the game of hide and seek. But it would still seem to me - I
speak as a layman - that nothing could be simpler or safer
than to deposit an infernal machine and retire to an adjacent
county to await the painful consequences.'
'You speak, indeed,' returned the plotter, with some evidence
of warmth, 'you speak, indeed, most ignorantly. Do you make
nothing, then, of such a peril as we share this moment? Do
you think it nothing to occupy a house like this one, mined,
menaced, and, in a word, literally tottering to its fall?'
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Four Arthurian Romances by Chretien DeTroyes: other replies: "Why, what of that? If you dare, you may seize my
bridle here and now. I do not esteem your proud threats so much
as a handful of ashes." And he replies: "That suits me
perfectly. However the affair may turn out, I should like to lay
my hands on you." Then the other knight advances to the middle
of the ford, where the other lays his left hand upon his bridle,
and his right hand upon his leg, pulling, dragging, and pressing
him so roughly that he remonstrates, thinking that he would pull
his leg out of his body. Then he begs him to let go, saying:
"Knight, if it please thee to fight me on even terms, take thy
shield and horse and lance, and joust with me." He answers:
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