| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from When the Sleeper Wakes by H. G. Wells: which he chiefly was the owner. People had their
sleeping rooms, with, it might be, antechambers,
rooms that were always sanitary at least whatever the
degree of comfort and privacy, and for the rest they
lived much as many people had lived in the new-made
giant hotels of the Victorian days, eating, reading,
thinking, playing, conversing, all in places of public
resort, going to their work in the industrial quarters
of the city or doing business in their offices in the
trading section.
He perceived at once how necessarily this state of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lin McLean by Owen Wister: the biscuit-shooter's years. It is a lady's prerogative, however, to
estimate her own age.
"She had her twenty-seventh birthday last month," said Lin, with
sentiment, bringing his horse entirely abreast of mine. "I promised her a
bear-skin."
"Yes," said I, "I heard about that in Buffalo."
Lin's face grew dusky with anger. "No doubt yu' heard about it," said
he. "I don't guess yu' heard much about anything else. I ain't told the
truth to any of 'em--but her." He looked at me with a certain hesitation.
"I think I will," he continued. "I don't mind tellin' you."
He began to speak in a strictly business tone, while he evened the coils
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Lover's Complaint by William Shakespeare: But yield them up where I myself must render,
That is, to you, my origin and ender:
For these, of force, must your oblations be,
Since I their altar, you enpatron me.
'O then advance of yours that phraseless hand,
Whose white weighs down the airy scale of praise;
Take all these similes to your own command,
Hallow'd with sighs that burning lungs did raise;
What me your minister, for you obeys,
Works under you; and to your audit comes
Their distract parcels in combined sums.
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