| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: with the other reasons I've put before you for your removal."
"Improper?"--her smile became a prolonged boldness. "My dear boy,
there's no one like you!"
"I dare say," he laughed; "but that doesn't help the question."
"Well," she returned, "I can't give up my friends. I'm making even
more than Mrs. Jordan."
Mr. Mudge considered. "How much is SHE making?"
"Oh you dear donkey!"--and, regardless of all the Regent's Park,
she patted his cheek. This was the sort of moment at which she was
absolutely tempted to tell him that she liked to be near Park
Chambers. There was a fascination in the idea of seeing if, on a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Poems by T. S. Eliot: Among the windings of the violins
And the ariettes
Of cracked cornets
Inside my brain a dull tom-tom begins
Absurdly hammering a prelude of its own,
Capricious monotone
That is at least one definite "false note."
--Let us take the air, in a tobacco trance,
Admire the monuments
Discuss the late events,
Correct our watches by the public clocks.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey: made life possible in the wilderness and the horses which were a
part of that life. When Lassiter asked her what Lassiter would be
without his guns he was assuming that his horse was part of
himself. So Jane loved Black Star and Night because it was her
nature to love all beautiful creatures--perhaps all living
things; and then she loved them because she herself was of the
sage and in her had been born and bred the rider's instinct to
rely on his four-footed brother. And when Jane gave Jerd the
order to keep her favorites trained down to the day it was a
half-conscious admission that presaged a time when she would need
her fleet horses.
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