| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Philosophy 4 by Owen Wister: told each other. But they forgot that no such thing as lunch could have
induced them to delay their escape from Cambridge for a moment this
morning. "What do you suppose Oscar is doing now?" Billy inquired of
Bertie, as they led the black gelding back to the road; and Bertie
laughed like an infant. "Gentlemen," said he, in Oscar's manner, "we
now approach the multiplicity of the ego." The black gelding must have
thought it had humorists to deal with this day.
Oscar, as a matter of fact, was eating his cheap lunch away over in
Cambridge. There was cold mutton, and boiled potatoes with hard brown
spots in them, and large picked cucumbers; and the salt was damp and
would not shake out through the holes in the top of the bottle. But
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Blix by Frank Norris:
"At last K. D. B. and Captain Jack have met!"
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"But," she added, as they started to walk, "we will never know
which one spoke first."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Alexander's Bridge by Willa Cather: in London he drove himself hard. He got
through a great deal of personal business
and saw a great many men who were doing
interesting things in his own profession.
He disliked to think of his visits to London
as holidays, and when he was there he worked
even harder than he did at home.
The day before his departure for Liverpool
was a singularly fine one. The thick air
had cleared overnight in a strong wind which
brought in a golden dawn and then fell off to
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