| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Stories From the Old Attic by Robert Harris: would have burned.
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When the boss called Smervits and Jenkins into the office, Jenkins
was very nervous because his plan to salvage the Freeble contract
had not worked. Smervits wasn't worried because he had shrewdly
stood by while Jenkins floundered with the contract.
"Jenkins, you failed," the boss said forcefully after the two men
had entered. "That's good," he added, "because it shows that you
tried something. Smervits, you didn't fail, but you didn't try
anything, either. You're fired."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Russia in 1919 by Arthur Ransome: matters, an armistice being arranged meanwhile. No direct
invitation was sent to the Soviet Government. After
attempting to obtain particulars through the editor of a
French socialist paper, Chicherin on February 4th sent a
long note to the Allies. The note was not at first considered
with great favour in Russia, although it was approved by the
opposition parties on the right, the Mensheviks even going
so far as to say that in sending such a note, the Bolsheviks
were acting in the interest of the whole of the Russian
people. The opposition on the left complained
that it was a betrayal of the revolution into the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Witch, et. al by Anton Chekhov: there will be no fish at all. And take the rivers now . . . the
rivers are drying up, for sure."
"It is true; they are drying up."
"To be sure, that's what I say. Every year they are shallower and
shallower, and there are not the deep holes there used to be. And
do you see the bushes yonder?" the old man asked, pointing to one
side. "Beyond them is an old river-bed; it's called a backwater.
In my father's time the Pestchanka flowed there, but now look;
where have the evil spirits taken it to? It changes its course,
and, mind you, it will go on changing till such time as it has
dried up altogether. There used to be marshes and ponds beyond
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