| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Bab:A Sub-Deb, Mary Roberts Rinehart by Mary Roberts Rinehart: know how much clothes and other things, such as manacuring, cost
these days. She merely charges things and my father gets the bills.
Nor do I consider it fair to expect me to atend Social Functions
and present a good appearence on a small Allowence, when I would
often prefer a simple game of tennis or to lie in a hammick, or to
converce with some one I am interested in, of the Other Sex.
It was mother who said a Thousand dollars a year and no extras. But
I must confess that to me, after ten dollars a month at school, it
seemed a large sum. I had but just returned for the summer
holadays, and the Familey was having a counsel about me. They
always have a counsel when I come home, and mother makes a list,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: Soc. I say, one may expect the soil broken up at that season of the
year to crumble[12] best.
[12] {kheisthai} = laxari, dissolvi, to be most friable, to scatter
readily.
Isch. Yes, and grasses[13] turned over at that season, Socrates, serve
to supply the soil already with manure; while as they have not shed
their seed as yet, they cannot vegetate.[14] I am supposing that you
recognise a further fact: to form good land, a fallow must be clean
and clear of undergrowth and weeds,[15] and baked as much as possible
by exposure to the sun.[16]
[13] "Herbage," whether grass or other plants, "grass," "clover," etc;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: man treads. But the gods made no answer and shewed no relenting,
nor did they give any favouring sign when he prayed to them in
dream, and invoked them sacrificially through the bearded priests
of Nasht and Kaman-Thah, whose cavern-temple with its pillar of
flame lies not far from the gates of the waking world. It seemed,
however, that his prayers must have been adversely heard, for
after even the first of them he ceased wholly to behold the marvellous
city; as if his three glimpses from afar had been mere accidents
or oversights, and against some hidden plan or wish of the gods.
At length, sick with longing for those glittering sunset streets
and cryptical hill lanes among ancient tiled roofs, nor able sleeping
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