| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates: about with the car," he explained airily.
"No, really?" said Lord Brethe.
"Yes," said Berry. "He's done more damage, the few times he's
driven it, than a skilled chauffeur would do in five years."
"Dear me," said the other. "Knows nothing of the mechanism, I
suppose?"
"Doesn't know the difference between the carburettor and the er-
exhaust."
Lord Brethe laughed. "Dear, dear. These young men," he said.
Here the spanner I was using slipped off a nut.
"Gently, my man, gently," said Berry pleasantly.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Golden Threshold by Sarojini Naidu: in his breast our lives.
Sweet is the shade of the cocoanut glade, and
the scent of the mango grove,
And sweet are the sands at the full o' the
moon with the sound of the voices we love.
But sweeter, O brothers, the kiss of the spray
and the dance of the wild foam's glee:
Row, brothers, row to the blue of the verge,
where the low sky mates with the sea.
THE SNAKE-CHARMER
Whither dost thou hide from the magic of my flute-call?
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw: definite but finite. When learning is only an excuse for
imprisonment, it is an instrument of torture which becomes more
painful the more progress is made. Thus when you have forced a child
to learn the Church Catechism, a document profound beyond the
comprehension of most adults, you are sometimes at a standstill for
something else to teach; and you therefore keep the wretched child
repeating its catechism again and again until you hit on the plan of
making it learn instalments of Bible verses, preferably from the book
of Numbers. But as it is less trouble to set a lesson that you know
yourself, there is a tendency to keep repeating the already learnt
lesson rather than break new ground. At school I began with a fairly
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