| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Ann Veronica by H. G. Wells: turned round sideways, so as to look down into the fire.
"You see, father," she said, "it isn't only this affair of the
dance. I want to go to that because it's a new experience,
because I think it will be interesting and give me a view of
things. You say I know nothing. That's probably true. But how
am I to know of things?"
"Some things I hope you may never know," he said.
"I'm not so sure. I want to know--just as much as I can."
"Tut!" he said, fuming, and put out his hand to the papers in the
pink tape.
"Well, I do. It's just that I want to say. I want to be a human
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: their respective berths to breakfast, and, at half-past nine,
the bell again rung for the artificers to take their stations
in their respective boats. Some demur having been evinced on
board about the propriety of working on Sunday, which had
hitherto been touched upon as delicately as possible, all
hands being called aft, the writer, from the quarter-deck,
stated generally the nature of the service, expressing his
hopes that every man would feel himself called upon to
consider the erection of a lighthouse on the Bell Rock, in
every point of view, as a work of necessity and mercy. He
knew that scruples had existed with some, and these had,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Happy Prince and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde: saying."
"Then you should certainly lecture on Philosophy," said the Dragon-
fly; and he spread a pair of lovely gauze wings and soared away
into the sky.
"How very silly of him not to stay here!" said the Rocket. "I am
sure that he has not often got such a chance of improving his mind.
However, I don't care a bit. Genius like mine is sure to be
appreciated some day"; and he sank down a little deeper into the
mud.
After some time a large White Duck swam up to him. She had yellow
legs, and webbed feet, and was considered a great beauty on account
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