| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson: Your cabman expostulates with you, you persist. The cabman drives
up in front of the closed gates and says, 'I told you so, sir.'
You breathe in the porter's ears the mystic name of COLVIN, and he
immediately unfolds the iron barrier. You drive in, and doesn't
your cabman think you're a swell. A lord mayor is nothing to it.
Colvin's door is the only one in the eastern gable of the building.
Send in your card to him with 'From R. L. S.' in the corner, and
the machinery will do the rest. Henry James's address is 34 De
Vere Mansions West. I cannot remember where the place is; I cannot
even remember on which side of the park. But it's one of those big
Cromwell Road-looking deserted thoroughfares out west in Kensington
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pivot of Civilization by Margaret Sanger: explain their troubles. To approach their problems by the avenue of
sex and reproduction is to reveal at once their fundamental relations
to the whole economic and biological structure of society. Their
interest is immediately and completely awakened. But always, as I
soon discovered, the ideas and habits of thought of these submerged
masses have been formed through the Press, the Church, through
political institutions, all of which had built up a conspiracy of
silence around a subject that is of no less vital importance than that
of Hunger. A great wall separates the masses from those imperative
truths that must be known and flung wide if civilization is to be
saved. As currently constituted, Church, Press, Education seem to-day
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: its ivory handle the outward and visible sign of your
snobbery, or from the exposed gingham of its cover detect,
through coat and waistcoat, the hidden hypocrisy of the
'DICKEY'! But alas! even the umbrella is no certain
criterion. The falsity and the folly of the human race have
degraded that graceful symbol to the ends of dishonesty; and
while some umbrellas, from carelessness in selection, are not
strikingly characteristic (for it is only in what a man loves
that he displays his real nature), others, from certain
prudential motives, are chosen directly opposite to the
person's disposition. A mendacious umbrella is a sign of
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