| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Facino Cane by Honore de Balzac: supply. Each time they did so they held out a full glass to the
Italian, who could not reach it for himself because he sat in front of
the table, and each time the Italian thanked them with a friendly nod.
All their movements were made with the precision which always amazes
you so much at the Blind Asylum. You could almost think that they can
see. I came nearer to listen; but when I stood beside them, they
evidently guessed I was not a working man, and kept themselves to
themselves.
"What part of the world do you come from, you that are playing the
clarionet?"
"From Venice," he said, with a trace of Italian accent.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Mrs. Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw: a ferocity unknown in dealing with, for example, ruinous
financial swindling. Had my play been titled Mr Warren's
Profession, and Mr Warren been a bookmaker, nobody would have
expected me to make him a villain as well. Yet gambling is a
vice, and bookmaking an institution, for which there is
absolutely nothing to be said. The moral and economic evil done
by trying to get other people's money without working for it (and
this is the essence of gambling) is not only enormous but
uncompensated. There are no two sides to the question of
gambling, no circumstances which force us to tolerate it lest its
suppression lead to worse things, no consensus of opinion among
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Case of the Golden Bullet by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: seemed to like the young man's honest indignation.
While they were talking, they had passed through a long corridor
and the young man laid his hand on one of the doors as the peddler
asked, "Can I see Miss Nanette alone?"
"Alone? Oho, she's engaged to me!"
"I know that," said the stranger, who seemed to be initiated into
all the doings of this household. "And I am an old man - all I
meant was that I would rather not have any of the other servants
about."
"I'll keep the cook out of the way if you want me to."
"That would be a good idea. It isn't easy to talk, business before
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