| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Hermione's Little Group of Serious Thinkers by Don Marquis: of social responsibility and give evolution a model.
Each should be a Symbol -- that's what I always
ask myself each night now: "Have I been a Symbol
today? Or have I failed to be a symbol?"
Down at the beach last week I nearly drowned --
you don't mean to say you haven't heard of it? It
was frightful.
I'd always heard that, when a person sinks, his
whole past life passes before him in review.
But it didn't with me. What I said as I went
down was: "Have I been a Symbol? Or have I
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Case of The Lamp That Went Out by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: "What do we owe you?" asked Franz.
"They'll send you a bill from the office. It won't amount to much.
I must be getting on now."
Muller hastened out of the door and down the street to the nearest
cab stand. There were not very many cab stands in this vicinity,
and the detective reasoned that Mrs. Bernauer would naturally have
taken her cab from the nearest station. He had heard her return in
her carriage, presumably the same in which she had started out.
There was but one cab at the stand. Muller walked to it and laid
his hand on the door.
"Oh, Jimmy! must I go out again?" asked the driver hoarsely.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen: "By Jove! this won't do," cried Tom, throwing himself into
a chair with a hearty laugh. "To be sure, my dear mother,
your anxiety--I was unlucky there."
"What is the matter?" asked her ladyship, in the heavy
tone of one half-roused; "I was not asleep."
"Oh dear, no, ma'am, nobody suspected you! Well, Edmund,"
he continued, returning to the former subject, posture,
and voice, as soon as Lady Bertram began to nod again,
"but _this_ I _will_ maintain, that we shall be doing
no harm."
"I cannot agree with you; I am convinced that my father
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