| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: Runcorn's mincer and coffee-mill business. To that Amalgamation
I was really not a party; I left it to my uncle because I was
then beginning to get keen upon the soaring experiments I had
taken on from the results then to hand of Lilienthal, Pilcher and
the Wright brothers. I was developing a glider into a flyer. I
meant to apply power to this glider as soon as I could work out
one or two residual problems affecting the longitudinal
stability. I knew that I had a sufficiently light motor in my
own modification of Bridger's light turbine, but I knew too that
until I had cured my aeroplane of a tendency demanding constant
alertness from me, a tendency to jerk up its nose at unexpected
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Lesson of the Master by Henry James: couple of years before; asked him about everything, his health, his
plans, his late occupations, the new book. "When will it be out -
soon, soon, I hope? Splendid, eh? That's right; you're a comfort,
you're a luxury! I've read you all over again these last six
months." Paul waited to see if he would tell him what the General
had told him in the afternoon and what Miss Fancourt, verbally at
least, of course hadn't. But as it didn't come out he at last put
the question.
"Is it true, the great news I hear - that you're to be married?"
"Ah you have heard it then?"
"Didn't the General tell you?" Paul asked.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pericles by William Shakespeare: Where by her own most clear remembrance, she
Made known herself my daughter.
THAISA.
Voice and favour!
You are, you are -- O royal Pericles!
[Faints.]
PERICLES.
What means the nun? she dies! help, gentlemen!
CERIMON.
Noble sir,
If you have told Diana's altar true,
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