| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates: We're bound to excite interest. It's what we're for and what
we want. I'll keep it going. Give me your wootler."
She handed me the reed, and I held it ready between my lips.
"Buck up, lass!"
Ten minutes more and we entered the village. The grounds where
the fete was to be holden lay three-quarters of a mile further
on. The ball was opened by two small errand boys, on whose
hands, as is usual with the breed, time was lying heavily.
They were engaged in deep converse as we came up, and it was only
when we were close upon them that they became aware of our
presence. For a few seconds they stared at us, apparently rooted
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Intentions by Oscar Wilde: of imparting opinions! How limited in range the creature's mind
proves to be! How it wearies us, and must weary himself, with its
endless repetitions and sickly reiteration! How lacking it is in
any element of intellectual growth! In what a vicious circle it
always moves!
ERNEST. You speak with strange feeling, Gilbert. Have you had
this dreadful experience, as you call it, lately?
GILBERT. Few of us escape it. People say that the schoolmaster is
abroad. I wish to goodness he were. But the type of which, after
all, he is only one, and certainly the least important, of the
representatives, seems to me to be really dominating our lives; and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare: First Folio editions' best pages.
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A Midsommer Nights Dreame
Actus primus.
Enter Theseus, Hippolita, with others.
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