| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Straight Deal by Owen Wister: Chapter IV: "My Army of Spies"
"You will desire to know," said the Kaiser to his council at Potsdam in
June, 1908, after the successful testing of the first Zeppelin, "how the
hostilities will be brought about. My army of spies scattered over Great
Britain and France, as it is over North and South America, will take good
care of that. Even now I rule supreme in the United States, where three
million voters do my bidding at the Presidential elections."
Yes, they did his bidding; there, and elsewhere too. They did it at other
elections as well. Do you remember the mayor they tried to elect in
Chicago? and certain members of Congress? and certain manufacturers and
bankers? They did his bidding in our newspapers, our public schools, and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Nana, Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille by Emile Zola: lean shoulders, over which fell his fringe of thin white locks.
"My faith," said Nana, bringing the ten big silver pieces and quite
determined to laugh about it, "I am going to entrust you with this,
gentlemen. It is for the poor."
And the adorable little dimple in her chin became apparent. She
assumed her favorite pose, her amiable baby expression, as she held
the pile of five-franc pieces on her open palm and offered it to the
men, as though she were saying to them, "Now then, who wants some?"
The count was the sharper of the two. He took fifty francs but left
one piece behind and, in order to gain possession of it, had to pick
it off the young woman's very skin, a moist, supple skin, the touch
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Pupil by Henry James: as hitherto revealed to him, had been adjusted. Morgan was scrappy
and surprising, deficient in many properties supposed common to the
genus and abounding in others that were the portion only of the
supernaturally clever. One day his friend made a great stride: it
cleared up the question to perceive that Morgan WAS supernaturally
clever and that, though the formula was temporarily meagre, this
would be the only assumption on which one could successfully deal
with him. He had the general quality of a child for whom life had
not been simplified by school, a kind of homebred sensibility which
might have been as bad for himself but was charming for others, and
a whole range of refinement and perception - little musical
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