| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Soul of the Far East by Percival Lowell: to compose a poem on the beauty of the spot and the feelings it
calls up, which he subsequently reads to his admiring companions.
Hot sake is next served, which is to them what beer is to a German
or absinthe to a blouse; and there they sit, sip, and poetize,
passing their couplets, as they do their cups, in honor to one
another. At last, after drinking in an hour or two of scenery and
sake combined, the symposium of poets breaks up.
Sometimes, instead of a company of friends, a man will take his
family, wife, babies, and all, on such an outing, but the details of
his holiday are much the same as before. For the scenery is still
the centre of attraction, and in the attendant creature comforts Far
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Animal Farm by George Orwell: title-deeds of Animal Farm they would ask no questions. Moreover, terrible
stories were leaking out from Pinchfield about the cruelties that
Frederick practised upon his animals. He had flogged an old horse to
death, he starved his cows, he had killed a dog by throwing it into the
furnace, he amused himself in the evenings by making cocks fight with
splinters of razor-blade tied to their spurs. The animals' blood boiled
with rage when they heard of these things beingdone to their comrades,
and sometimes they clamoured to be allowed to go out in a body and attack
Pinchfield Farm, drive out the humans, and set the animals free. But
Squealer counselled them to avoid rash actions and trust in Comrade
Napoleon's strategy.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mansion by Henry van Dyke: the
vast city, passing street after street of houses larger and
smaller,
of gardens richer and poorer, but all full of beauty and delight.
They came into a kind of suburb, where there were many small
cottages,
with plots of flowers, very lowly, but bright and fragrant.
Finally they reached an open field, bare and lonely-looking.
There were two or three little bushes in it, without flowers,
and the grass was sparse and thin. In the center of the field
was a tiny hut, hardly big enough for a shepherd's shelter.
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