| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Russia in 1919 by Arthur Ransome: AN EVENING AT THE OPERA
I read in one of the newspapers that a member of the
American Commission in Berlin reasoned from the fact that
the Germans were crowding to theatres and spectacles that
they could not be hungry. There can be no question about
the hunger of the people of Moscow, but the theatres are
crowded, and there is such demand for seats that speculators
acquire tickets in the legitimate way and sell them illicitly
near the doors of the theatre to people who have not been
able to get in, charging, of course, double the price or even
more. Interest in the theatre, always keen in Moscow, seems
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Whirligigs by O. Henry: said, raising his finger, "and I'll show you your recently
purchased enemy. There he goes, down the other side
of the street."
The mountaineer crooked his long frame to look
through the window in the direction indicated by the other.
Colonel Abner Coltrane, an erect, portly gentleman of
about fifty, wearing the inevitable long, double-breasted
frock coat of the Southern lawmaker, and an old high
silk hat, was passing on the opposite sidewalk. As
Garvey looked, Goree glanced at his face. If there be
such a thing as a yellow wolf, here was its counterpart.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: CHAPTER II
RUSSIANS AND TARTARS
THE Czar had not so suddenly left the ball-room of the
New Palace, when the fete he was giving to the civil and
military authorities and principal people of Moscow was at
the height of its brilliancy, without ample cause; for he
had just received information that serious events were tak-
ing place beyond the frontiers of the Ural. It had become
evident that a formidable rebellion threatened to wrest the
Siberian provinces from the Russian crown.
Asiatic Russia, or Siberia, covers a superficial area of
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