| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: We must have more money to buy medical supplies from England, and
we have with us tonight the intrepid captain who has so
successfully run the blockade for a year and who will run it again
to bring us the drugs we need. Captain Rhett Butler!"
Though caught unawares, the blockader made a graceful bow--too
graceful, thought Scarlett, trying to analyze it. It was almost
as if he overdid his courtesy because his contempt for everybody
present was so great. There was a loud burst of applause as he
bowed and a craning of necks from the ladies in the corner. So
that was who poor Charles Hamilton's widow was carrying on with!
And Charlie hardly dead a year!
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Soul of Man by Oscar Wilde: I believe were the direct traditions of the Great Exhibition of
international vulgarity, traditions that were so appalling that the
houses in which people lived were only fit for blind people to live
in. Beautiful things began to be made, beautiful colours came from
the dyer's hand, beautiful patterns from the artist's brain, and
the use of beautiful things and their value and importance were set
forth. The public were really very indignant. They lost their
temper. They said silly things. No one minded. No one was a whit
the worse. No one accepted the authority of public opinion. And
now it is almost impossible to enter any modern house without
seeing some recognition of good taste, some recognition of the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Riverman by Stewart Edward White: call of birds, the opulent splashing of sun-gold through the woods,
quite lacking to the hard, tight season in which his river work was
usually performed. What, in the early year, had been merely a whip
of brush, now had become a screen through whose waving, shifting
interstices he caught glimpses of the river flowing green and cool.
What had been bare timber amongst whose twigs and branches the full
daylight had shone unobstructed, now had clothed itself in foliage
and leaned over to make black and mysterious the water that flowed
beneath. Countless insects hovered over the polished surface of
that water. Dragon-flies cruised about. Little birds swooped
silently down and fluttered back, intent on their tiny prey. Water-
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