| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Ann Veronica by H. G. Wells: outside her experience that she found it possible to thrust them
almost out of sight by saying they would be "all right" in
confident tones to herself. But still she knew they were not
right, and at times they became a horrible obsession as of
something waiting for her round the corner. She tried to imagine
herself "getting something," to project herself as sitting down
at a desk and writing, or as returning after her work to some
pleasantly equipped and free and independent flat. For a time
she furnished the flat. But even with that furniture it remained
extremely vague, the possible good and the possible evil as well!
The possible evil! "I'll go," said Ann Veronica for the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare: Captain Dumain be i' the camp, a Frenchman; what his reputation
is with the duke, what his valour, honesty, expertness in wars;
or whether he thinks it were not possible, with well-weighing
sums of gold, to corrupt him to a revolt.'
What say you to this? what do you know of it?
PAROLLES.
I beseech you, let me answer to the particular of the
inter'gatories: demand them singly.
FIRST SOLDIER.
Do you know this Captain Dumain?
PAROLLES.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Falk by Joseph Conrad: himself especially. He sought his company. In
this case, for instance, he must have been waiting
for him, because as soon as he appeared Falk rose
hastily, and they went out together. Then Schom-
berg expounded in my hearing to three or four
people his theory that Falk was after Captain Her-
mann's niece, and asserted confidently that nothing
would come of it. It was the same last year when
Captain Hermann was loading here, he said.
Naturally, I did not believe Schomberg, but I
own that for a time I observed closely what went
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