| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Pupil by Henry James: time it wasn't decent to abuse to one's pupil the family of one's
pupil; it was better to misrepresent than to do that. So in reply
to his comrade's last exclamation he just declared, to dismiss the
subject, that he had received several payments.
"I say - I say!" the boy ejaculated, laughing.
"That's all right," Pemberton insisted. "Give me your written
rendering."
Morgan pushed a copybook across the table, and he began to read the
page, but with something running in his head that made it no sense.
Looking up after a minute or two he found the child's eyes fixed on
him and felt in them something strange. Then Morgan said: "I'm
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Poems by T. S. Eliot: Delay? De Bailhache, Fresca, Mrs. Cammel, whirled
Beyond the circuit of the shuddering Bear
In fractured atoms. Gull against the wind, in the windy straits
Of Belle Isle, or running on the Horn,
White feathers in the snow, the Gulf claims,
And an old man driven by the Trades
To a sleepy corner.
Tenants of the house,
Thoughts of a dry brain in a dry season.
Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar
Tra-la-la-la-la-la-laire--nil nisi divinum stabile
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from I Have A Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr.: together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail
together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will
be free one day.
This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to
sing with a new meaning, "My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of
liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the
pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring."
And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. So
let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.
Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let
freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!
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