| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Confidence by Henry James: with her through the lighted and crowded rooms, where they
soon detached themselves from their companions, he felt that
peculiar satisfaction which best expresses itself in silence.
Angela looked a while at the rows of still, attentive faces,
fixed upon the luminous green circle, across which little
heaps of louis d'or were being pushed to and fro, and she
continued to say nothing. Then at last she exclaimed simply,
"Come away!" They turned away and passed into another chamber,
in which there was no gambling. It was an immense apartment,
apparently a ball-room; but at present it was quite unoccupied.
There were green velvet benches all around it, and a great
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Sesame and Lilies by John Ruskin: desire to be thought a fine writer, and partly, as in the second
volume of 'Modern Painters,' in the notion of returning as far as I
could to what I thought the better style of old English literature,
especially to that of my then favourite, in prose, Richard Hooker.
For these reasons,--though, as respects either art, policy, or
morality, as distinct from religion, I not only still hold, but
would even wish strongly to re-affirm the substance of what I said
in my earliest books,--I shall reprint scarcely anything in this
series out of the first and second volumes of 'Modern Painters'; and
shall omit much of the 'Seven Lamps' and 'Stones of Venice'; but all
my books written within the last fifteen years will be republished
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Animal Farm by George Orwell: see was theirs! In the ecstasy of that thought they gambolled round and
round, they hurled themselves into the air in great leaps of excitement.
They rolled in the dew, they cropped mouthfuls of the sweet summer grass,
they kicked up clods of the black earth and snuffed its rich scent. Then
they made a tour of inspection of the whole farm and surveyed with
speechless admiration the ploughland, the hayfield, the orchard, the pool,
the spinney. It was as though they had never seen these things before, and
even now they could hardly believe that it was all their own.
Then they filed back to the farm buildings and halted in silence outside
the door of the farmhouse. That was theirs too, but they were frightened
to go inside. After a moment, however, Snowball and Napoleon butted the
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