| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King Lear by William Shakespeare: Edm. I know no news, my lord.
Glou. What paper were you reading?
Edm. Nothing, my lord.
Glou. No? What needed then that terrible dispatch of it into
your
pocket? The quality of nothing hath not such need to hide
itself. Let's see. Come, if it be nothing, I shall not need
spectacles.
Edm. I beseech you, sir, pardon me. It is a letter from my
brother
that I have not all o'er-read; and for so much as I have
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Pool in the Desert by Sara Jeanette Duncan: the truth. She was not so happy when she indulged herself
otherwise. As when she asked one to remember that she was a middle-
aged woman, with middle-aged thoughts and satisfactions.
'I am now really happiest,' she declared, 'when the Commissioner
takes me in to dinner, when the General Commanding leads me to the
dance.'
She did her best to make it an honest conviction. I offered her a
recent success not crowned by the Academy, and she put it down on
the table. 'By and by,' she said. 'At present I am reading Pascal
and Bossuet.' Well, she was reading Pascal and Bossuet. She
grieved aloud that most of our activities in India were so
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Damaged Goods by Upton Sinclair: do not know that I have ever passed through a more thrilling,
terrible, and yet hopeful experience than last evening, while I
listened to your interpretation of Eugene Brieux' "DAMAGED
GOODS."
I have been following your work with ever deepening interest. It
is not too much to say that you have changed the thinking of the
people of our country as to the social evil. At last, thank God,
this conspiracy of silence is ended. No young man who sees
"Damaged Goods" will ever be the same again. If I wanted to
build around an innocent boy buttresses of fire and granite, and
lend him triple armour against temptation and the assaults of
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