| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from In a German Pension by Katherine Mansfield: boots. Ah, what a relief to wear sandals again. I am needing the 'cure'
very badly this year. My nerves! I am a mass of them. During the entire
journey I sat with my handkerchief over my head, even while the guard
collected the tickets. Exhausted!"
She came into the arbour wearing a black and white spotted dressing-gown,
and a calico cap peaked with patent leather, followed by Kathi, carrying
the little blue jugs of malt coffee. We were formally introduced. Frau
Fischer sat down, produced a perfectly clean pocket handkerchief and
polished her cup and saucer, then lifted the lid of the coffee-pot and
peered in at the contents mournfully.
"Malt coffee," she said. "Ah, for the first few days I wonder how I can
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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: The horses, under the axletree
Beat up the dawn from Istria
With even feet. Her shuttered barge
Burned on the water all the day.
But this or such was Bleistein's way:
A saggy bending of the knees
And elbows, with the palms turned out,
Chicago Semite Viennese.
A lustreless protrusive eye
Stares from the protozoic slime
At a perspective of Canaletto.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner: the German dreamed of; for, mark you, the old dream little how their words
and lives are texts and studies to the generation that shall succeed them.
Not what we are taught, but what we see, makes us, and the child gathers
the food on which the adult feeds to the end.
When the German looked up next there was a look of supreme satisfaction in
the little mouth and the beautiful eyes.
"What dost see, chicken?" he asked.
The child said nothing, and an agonizing shriek was borne on the afternoon
breeze.
"Oh, God! my God! I am killed!" cried the voice of Bonaparte, as he, with
wide open mouth and shaking flesh, fell into the room, followed by a half-
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