| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: heed her.
At last she gave way to me and talked no more. Instead she
looked at me--as a thing beyond her controlling, but none the
less interesting--much as she had looked at me from behind the
skirts of Lady Drew in the Warren when we were children together.
Once even I thought she smiled faintly.
"What are the difficulties" I cried. "there's no difficulty I
will not overcome for you! Do your people think I'm no equal for
you? Who says it? My dear, tell me to win a title! I'll do it
in five years!...
"Here am I just grown a man at the sight of you. I have wanted
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Market-Place by Harold Frederic: of the nouveaux riches one sees flaunting about nowadays.
And he can talk very well indeed--in a direct, practical sort
of way. I don't quite follow you about his niece and
nephew spoiling him. Of course one can see that they
have had a great effect upon him. He sees it himself--and
he's very proud of it. He told me so, quite frankly.
But why shouldn't it be a nice effect?"
"Oh, I don't know," Celia replied, idly. "It seemed to me
that he was the kind of piratical buccaneer who oughtn't
to be shaved and polished and taught drawing-room tricks--I
feel that merely in the interest of the fitness of things.
The Market-Place |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from War and the Future by H. G. Wells: III. The Religious Revival
IV. The Riddle of the British
V. The Social Changes in Progress
VI. The Ending of the War
THE PASSING OF THE EFFIGY
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One of the minor peculiarities of this unprecedented war is the
Tour of the Front. After some months of suppressed information--
in which even the war correspondent was discouraged to the point
of elimination--it was discovered on both sides that this was a
struggle in which Opinion was playing a larger and more important
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