| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne: manner with Obadiah's explosion, that you would have sworn (without mental
reservation) that every grain of it had taken effect.
Here was a fair opportunity for my uncle Toby to have triumphed over my
father in his turn;--for no mortal, who had beheld Dr. Slop in that pickle,
could have dissented from so much, at least, of my uncle Toby's opinion,
'That mayhap his sister might not care to let such a Dr. Slop come so near
her. . ..' But it was the Argumentum ad hominem; and if my uncle Toby was
not very expert at it, you may think, he might not care to use it.--No; the
reason was,--'twas not his nature to insult.
Dr. Slop's presence at that time, was no less problematical than the mode
of it; tho' it is certain, one moment's reflexion in my father might have
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tom Grogan by F. Hopkinson Smith: eyes from his face, and never moved a muscle of her body. She was
slowly revolving in her mind whether any information she could get
out of him would be worth the waiting for.
Crimmins relapsed into silence, and began patting the floor with
his foot. The prolonged stillness was becoming uncomfortable.
"I was tellin' ye about the meetin' we had to the Union last
night. We was goin' over the list of members, an' we didn't find
yer name. The board thought maybe ye'd like to come in wid us.
The dues is only two dollars a month. We're a-regulatin' the
prices for next year, stevedorin' an' haulin', an' the rates'll be
sent out next week." The stopper was now out of the oil-bottle.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: out of the window by which it had entered. A cry rose from the
crowd, and Dr Armitage shouted to the men outside that no one
must be admitted till the police or medical examiner came. He
was thankful that the windows were just too high to permit of
peering in, and drew the dark curtains carefully down over each
one. By this time two policemen had arrived; and Dr Morgan, meeting
them in the vestibule, was urging them for their own sakes to
postpone entrance to the stench-filled reading-room till the examiner
came and the prostrate thing could be covered up.
Meanwhile
frightful changes were taking place on the floor. One need not
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