| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mucker by Edgar Rice Burroughs: sharply.
"Thought he said 'we'," remarked one of the sailors.
Skipper Simms, livid with rage, turned to search out the
offender from the several men behind him.
"Who was that?" he roared. "Show me the blitherin' swab.
Jes' show him to me, I tell you, an I'll learn him. Now you,"
he yelled at the top of his voice, turning again to the men he
had ordered into the forecastle after Billy Byrne, "you cowardly
landlubbers you, get below there quick afore I kick you
below."
Still no one moved to obey him. From white he went to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pierre Grassou by Honore de Balzac: work, had been caught by the revolution of July he would not have got
his money.
By the time he was thirty-seven Fougeres had manufactured for Elie
Magus some two hundred pictures, all of them utterly unknown, by the
help of which he had attained to that satisfying manner, that point of
execution before which the true artist shrugs his shoulders and the
bourgeoisie worships. Fougeres was dear to friends for rectitude of
ideas, for steadiness of sentiment, absolute kindliness, and great
loyalty; though they had no esteem for his palette, they loved the man
who held it.
"What a misfortune it is that Fougeres has the vice of painting!" said
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: on the Beckenham house, bothered very little about his personal
surroundings and possessions. I forget now when the change came
and he began to spend. Some accident must have revealed to him
this new source of power, or some subtle shifting occurred in the
tissues of his brain. He began to spend and "shop." So soon as
he began to shop, he began to shop violently. He began buying
pictures, and then, oddly enough, old clocks. For the
Chiselhurst house he bought nearly a dozen grandfather clocks and
three copper warming pans. After that he bought much furniture.
Then he plunged into art patronage, and began to commission
pictures and to make presents to churches and institutions. His
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