| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence: where I most have sinned!'
I asked him if he thought he would be able to attend to his duty in the
wood, and he said he did not think he had neglected it. I told him it
was a nuisance to have the woman trespassing: to which he replied that
he had no power to arrest her. Then I hinted at the scandal and its
unpleasant course. 'Ay,' he said. 'folks should do their own fuckin',
then they wouldn't want to listen to a lot of clatfart about another
man's.'
He said it with some bitterness, and no doubt it contains the real germ
of truth. The mode of putting it, however, is neither delicate nor
respectful. I hinted as much, and then I heard the tin can rattle
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from An Inland Voyage by Robert Louis Stevenson: passed through a stretch of blighted country, sparsely covered with
brush, but handsomely enough diversified with factory chimneys. We
landed in a soiled meadow among some pollards, and there smoked a
pipe in a flaw of fair weather. But the wind blew so hard, we
could get little else to smoke. There were no natural objects in
the neighbourhood, but some sordid workshops. A group of children
headed by a tall girl stood and watched us from a little distance
all the time we stayed. I heartily wonder what they thought of us.
At Hautmont, the lock was almost impassable; the landing-place
being steep and high, and the launch at a long distance. Near a
dozen grimy workmen lent us a hand. They refused any reward; and,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Rinkitink In Oz by L. Frank Baum: Then Cor espied the whip lying beside Inga and
snatching it up she tried to lash him with it -- all to
no avail.
While Zella sat horrified by this scene, the Prince,
who realized he had no time to waste, reached out and
pulled the right shoe from the girl's foot, quickly
placing it upon his own. Then he stood up and, facing
the furious but astonished Queen, said to her in a
quiet voice:
"Madam, please give me that whip."
"I won't!" answered Cor. "I'm going to lash those
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