| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London: washerwoman, a ragged scrubbing skirt borrowed from the charwoman, and a gray
wig rented from a costumer for twenty-five cents a night, completed the
outfit; for Edna had elected to be an old Irishwoman singing broken-heartedly
after her wandering boy.
Though they had come early, she found everything in uproar. The main
performance was under way, the orchestra was playing and the audience
intermittently applauding. The infusion of the amateurs clogged the working of
things behind the stage, crowded the passages, dressing rooms, and wings, and
forced everybody into everybody else's way. This was particularly distasteful
to the professionals, who carried themselves as befitted those of a higher
caste, and whose behavior toward the pariah amateurs was marked by hauteur and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Amazing Interlude by Mary Roberts Rinehart: sweater until it assumed uncompromising proportions.
Sara Lee's days, up to the twentieth of December, 1914, had been much
alike. In the mornings she straightened up her room, which she had
copied from one in a woman's magazine, with the result that it gave
somehow the impression of a baby's bassinet, being largely dotted Swiss
and ribbon. Yet in a way it was a perfect setting for Sara Lee herself.
It was fresh and virginal, and very, very neat and white. A resigned
little room, like Sara Lee, resigned to being tucked away in a corner
and to having no particular outlook. Peaceful, too.
Sometimes in the morning between straightening her room and going to the
market for Aunt Harriet, Sara Lee looked at a newspaper. So she knew
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: [22] Lit. "Enemies for the matter of that, when, being beautiful and
good, they chance to have enslaved some other, have ere now in
many an instance chastened and compelled the vanquished to be
better and to live more easily for the rest of time."
II
The conersation was resumed by Critobulus, and on this wise. He said:
I think I take your meaning fully, Socrates, about these matters; and
for myself, examining my heart, I am further satisfied, I have
sufficient continence and self-command in those respects. So that if
you will only advise me on what I am to do to improve my estate, I
flatter myself I shall not be hindered by those despotic dames, as you
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