| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: a story inside of me. Tis about another tailor who had a great,
big, black, ugly demon to wait upon him and to sew his clothes
for him."
"And the name of that story, my friend," said the Soldier who had
cheated the Devil, "is what?"
"It hath no name," piped the little Tailor, "but I will give it
one, and it shall be--
Woman's Wit.
When man's strength fails, woman's wit prevails.
In the days when the great and wise King Solomon lived and ruled,
evil spirits and demons were as plentiful in the world as wasps
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton: child one of her youthful apprentices.
Ann Eliza started from her seat. "I'll come at once. Quick,
Evelina, the cordial!"
By this euphemistic name the sisters designated a bottle of
cherry brandy, the last of a dozen inherited from their
grandmother, which they kept locked in their cupboard against such
emergencies. A moment later, cordial in hand, Ann Eliza was
hurrying upstairs behind the weak-eyed child.
Miss Mellins' "turn" was sufficiently serious to detain Ann
Eliza for nearly two hours, and dusk had fallen when she took up
the depleted bottle of cordial and descended again to the shop. It
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield: events. That was a bit too steep. And then the green light trembled in
the glass; it was the shadow from the tree outside. Reggie turned away,
took out his cigarette case, but remembering how the mater hated him to
smoke in his bedroom, put it back again and drifted over to the chest of
drawers. No, he was dashed if he could think of one blessed thing in his
favour, while she...Ah!...He stopped dead, folded his arms, and leaned hard
against the chest of drawers.
And in spite of her position, her father's wealth, the fact that she was an
only child and far and away the most popular girl in the neighbourhood; in
spite of her beauty and her cleverness--cleverness!--it was a great deal
more than that, there was really nothing she couldn't do; he fully
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