| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic: the world as if he had wandered into some vast tragical,
enchanted cave, and was being drawn against his will--
like fascinated bird and python--toward fate at the savage
hands of these swollen and enraged genii.
He stumbled in the obscure light over a kneeling-bench,
making a considerable racket. On the instant the noise
from the organ ceased, and he saw the black figure
of a woman rise above the gallery-rail and look down.
"Who is it?" the indubitable voice of Miss Madden
demanded sharply.
Theron had a sudden sheepish notion of turning and running.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from American Notes by Rudyard Kipling: the little club under the travellers' tree, generally keeps the
village posted in such gossip as the barber and the mid-wife have
not yet made public property.
Chicago husks and winnows her wheat by the million bushels, a
hundred banks lend hundreds of millions of dollars in the year,
and scores of factories turn out plow-gear and machinery by
steam. Scores of daily papers do work which Hukm Chund and the
barber and the midwife perform, with due regard for public
opinion, in the village of Isser Jang. So far as manufactories
go, the difference between Chicago on the lake, and Isser Jang on
the Montgomery road, is one of degree only, and not of kind. As
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Pupil by Henry James: vainly endeavoured to effect, with bolting lest they should "get
something out" of him. On the other hand he had to do Mr. Moreen
and Ulick the justice to recognise that when on coming in they
heard the cruel news they took it like perfect men of the world.
CHAPTER VIIII
When he got at work with the opulent youth, who was to be taken in
hand for Balliol, he found himself unable to say if this aspirant
had really such poor parts or if the appearance were only begotten
of his own long association with an intensely living little mind.
From Morgan he heard half a dozen times: the boy wrote charming
young letters, a patchwork of tongues, with indulgent postscripts
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