| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald: too high, censor of conceit, vendor of rare, satirical humor.
Amory spread the table of their future friendship with all his
ideas of what college should and did mean. Kerry, not inclined as
yet to take things seriously, chided him gently for being curious
at this inopportune time about the intricacies of the social
system, but liked him and was both interested and amused.
Burne, fair-haired, silent, and intent, appeared in the house
only as a busy apparition, gliding in quietly at night and off
again in the early morning to get up his work in the libraryhe
was out for the Princetonian, competing furiously against forty
others for the coveted first place. In December he came down with
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Oscar Wilde Miscellaneous by Oscar Wilde: FIRST MAN. They are like the moons one sees in the water when the
wind blows from the hills.
SECOND MAN. I think she is one of the gods. I think she comes from
Nubia.
FIRST MAN. I am sure she is the daughter of the Emperor. Her nails
are stained with henna. They are like the petals of a rose. She
has come here to weep for Adonis.
SECOND MAN. She is one of the gods. I do not know why she has left
her temple. The gods should not leave their temples. If she speaks
to us let us not answer, and she will pass by.
FIRST MAN. She will not speak to us. She is the daughter of the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tom Sawyer, Detective by Mark Twain: I WAS astonished! I says:
"Tom, you don't mean it."
"It's gone, sure. There ain't a sign of it. The ground
is trampled some, but if there was any blood it's all
washed away by the storm, for it's all puddles and slush
in there."
At last I give in, and went and took a look myself; and it
was just as Tom said--there wasn't a sign of a corpse.
"Dern it," I says, "the di'monds is gone. Don't you
reckon the thieves slunk back and lugged him off, Tom?"
"Looks like it. It just does. Now where'd they hide him,
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