| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton: business, but never-- what she had most feared it would be a
dull or depressing one.
It was not, she owned to herself, that the society of the Fulmer
children had roused in her any abstract passion for the human
young. She knew--had known since Nick's first kiss--how she
would love any child of his and hers; and she had cherished poor
little Clarissa Vanderlyn with a shrinking and wistful
solicitude. But in these rough young Fulmers she took a
positive delight, and for reasons that were increasingly clear
to her. It was because, in the first place, they were all
intelligent; and because their intelligence had been fed only on
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Miracle Mongers and Their Methods by Harry Houdini: stunt. This was in the later days, and
the act was partly fake and partly genuine.
That is to say, the swallowing was fair enough,
but the sharp razors, after being tested by
cutting hairs, etc., were exchanged for dull
duplicates, in a manner that, in better hands,
might have been effective. This chap belonged
to the great army of unconscious exposers, and
the ``switch'' was quite apparent to all save
the most careless observers.
His apparatus consisted of a fancy rack on
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: [5] See Arrian, xxxi.; Stonehenge, p. 264.
[6] Or, "the internal organs get wrong" ({adika}). Cf. "Memorabilia,"
IV. iv. 5.
They should have short names given them, which will be easy to call
out.[7] The following may serve as specimens:--Psyche, Pluck, Buckler,
Spigot, Lance, Lurcher, Watch, Keeper, Brigade, Fencer, Butcher,
Blazer, Prowess, Craftsman, Forester, Counsellor, Spoiler, Hurry,
Fury, Growler, Riot, Bloomer, Rome, Blossom, Hebe, Hilary, Jolity,
Gazer, Eyebright, Much, Force, Trooper, Bustle, Bubbler, Rockdove,
Stubborn, Yelp, Killer, Pele-mele, Strongboy, Sky, Sunbeam, Bodkin,
Wistful, Gnome, Tracks, Dash.[8]
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