| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Rescue by Joseph Conrad: respectability that the young defender of the brig could get
nothing from him except lamentations mingled with mild
blasphemies. The brig slept, and along her quiet deck the voices
raised in her cabin--Shaw's appeals and reproaches directed
vociferously to heaven, together with Carter's inflexible drawl
mingled into one deadened, modulated, and continuous murmur. The
lockouts in the waist, motionless and peering into obscurity, one
ear turned to the sea, were aware of that strange resonance like
the ghost of a quarrel that seemed to hover at their backs.
Wasub, after seeing Hassim and Immada into their canoe, prowled
to and fro the whole length of the vessel vigilantly. There was
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Crisis in Russia by Arthur Ransome: of the infectious character of the proceedings, telling how
people who came out of curiosity to look on found
themselves joining in the work, and how a soldier with an
accordion after staring for a long time open-mouthed at
these lunatics working on a Saturday afternoon put up a tune
for them on his instrument, and, delighted by their delight,
played on while the workers all sang together.
The idea of the "Saturdayings" spread quickly from railways
to factories, and by the middle of the summer reports of
similar efforts were coming from all over Russia. Then
Lenin became interested, seeing in these "Saturdayings" not
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton: of an inch. "My dear sir, the law's the law; and your
wife's cousin was married under the French law. It's to
be presumed she knew what that meant."
"Even if she did, what happened subsequently--."
But Archer paused. Mr. Letterblair had laid his pen-
handle against his big corrugated nose, and was looking
down it with the expression assumed by virtuous
elderly gentlemen when they wish their youngers to
understand that virtue is not synonymous with ignorance.
"My dear sir, I've no wish to extenuate the Count's
transgressions; but--but on the other side . . . I wouldn't
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