| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Don Quixote by Miquel de Cervantes: of mischief and sack of knavery; go govern your house and dig your
seed-patch, and give over looking for islands or shylands."
The curate and the barber listened with great amusement to the words
of the three; but Don Quixote, uneasy lest Sancho should blab and
blurt out a whole heap of mischievous stupidities, and touch upon
points that might not be altogether to his credit, called to him and
made the other two hold their tongues and let him come in. Sancho
entered, and the curate and the barber took their leave of Don
Quixote, of whose recovery they despaired when they saw how wedded
he was to his crazy ideas, and how saturated with the nonsense of
his unlucky chivalry; and said the curate to the barber, "You will
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Daisy Miller by Henry James: for anything she wanted to say she was sure to find a pretext.
She found a great many pretexts in the rugged embrasures of Chillon
for asking Winterbourne sudden questions about himself--his family,
his previous history, his tastes, his habits, his intentions--and for
supplying information upon corresponding points in her own personality.
Of her own tastes, habits, and intentions Miss Miller was prepared
to give the most definite, and indeed the most favorable account.
"Well, I hope you know enough!" she said to her companion,
after he had told her the history of the unhappy Bonivard.
"I never saw a man that knew so much!" The history of Bonivard
had evidently, as they say, gone into one ear and out of the other.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Hermione's Little Group of Serious Thinkers by Don Marquis: lation to Recent Psychic Hypotheses" -- that's the
title; I wrote it down. I always take notes of a title
like that. It helps one to get to the heart of the
matter.
Interstellar Communication is wonderful -- simply WONDERFUL!
We're going to take up Mars soon.
Mamma said to me only yesterday: "Hermione,
you SIMPLY MUST drop some of your serious subjects
during the hot weather."
"Mamma," I told her, "that was all very well in
your day -- to take things up and drop them at will.
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