| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Light of Western Stars by Zane Grey: them down here in this wilderness corner of the state."
On the following day Alfred and Florence were married. Florence's
sister and several friends from El Cajon were present, besides
Madeline, Stillwell, and his men. It was Alfred's express wish
that Stewart attend the ceremony. Madeline was amused when she
noticed the painfully suppressed excitement of the cowboys. For
them a wedding must have been an unusual and impressive event.
She began to have a better understanding of the nature of it when
they cast off restraint and pressed forward to kiss the bride.
In all her life Madeline had never seen a bride kissed so much
and so heartily, nor one so flushed and disheveled and happy.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Poems by T. S. Eliot: Wrapt in the old miasmal mist.
Dans le Restaurant
Le garcon délabré qui n'a rien à faire
Que de se gratter les doigts et se pencher sur mon épaule:
"Dans mon pays il fera temps pluvieux,
Du vent, du grand soleil, et de la pluie;
C'est ce qu'on appelle le jour de lessive des gueux."
(Bavard, baveux, à la croupe arrondie,
Je te prie, au moins, ne bave pas dans la soupe).
"Les saules trempés, et des bourgeons sur les ronces--
C'est là, dans une averse, qu'on s'abrite.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tour Through Eastern Counties of England by Daniel Defoe: revocation of the order, he was fain to leave off his brewhouse,
and if I remember right, quitted the town.
Thus I say, interest gives them authority; and there are abundance
of reasons why the town should not disoblige the university, as
there are some also on the other hand, why the university should
not differ to any extremity with the town; nor, such is their
prudence, do they let any disputes between them run up to any
extremities if they can avoid it. As for society; to any man who
is a lover of learning, or of learned men, here is the most
agreeable under heaven; nor is there any want of mirth and good
company of other kinds; but it is to the honour of the university
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