| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, etc. by Oscar Wilde: becoming myself, but papa said it was historical, so I suppose it
is all right. Parker unpacked it, and papa put it on the
mantelpiece in the library, and we were all sitting there on Friday
morning, when just as the clock struck twelve, we heard a whirring
noise, a little puff of smoke came from the pedestal of the figure,
and the goddess of Liberty fell off, and broke her nose on the
fender! Maria was quite alarmed, but it looked so ridiculous, that
James and I went off into fits of laughter, and even papa was
amused. When we examined it, we found it was a sort of alarum
clock, and that, if you set it to a particular hour, and put some
gunpowder and a cap under a little hammer, it went off whenever you
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald: HE: (After due consideration) Listen. This is a frightful thing
to ask.
SHE: (Knowing what's coming) After five minutes.
HE: But will youkiss me? Or are you afraid?
SHE: I'm never afraidbut your reasons are so poor.
HE: Rosalind, I really want to kiss you.
SHE: So do I.
(They kissdefinitely and thoroughly.)
HE: (After a breathless second) Well, is your curiosity
satisfied?
SHE: Is yours?
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Off on a Comet by Jules Verne: debate under the title of "The History of an Hypothesis." In reply
to this impertinent criticism of his labors, Rosette issued
a rejoinder full with the most vehement expressions of indignation,
and reiterating his asseveration that a fragment of Gibraltar
was still traversing the regions of space, carrying thirteen
Englishmen upon its surface, and concluding by saying that it
was the great disappointment of his life that he had not been
taken with them.
Pablo and little Nina were adopted, the one by Servadac, the other
by the count, and under the supervision of their guardians,
were well educated and cared for. Some years later, Colonel,
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