| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from An Unsocial Socialist by George Bernard Shaw: that you and Trefusis are engaged, I shall of course say nothing
that would make it unpleasant for him to visit here; but I must
say that he has--to say the least--been inconsiderate to me
personally. I signed a paper at his house on the implicit
understanding that it was strictly private, and now he has
trumpeted it forth to the whole world, and publicly associated my
name not only with his own, but with those of persons of whom I
know nothing except that I would rather not be connected with
them in any way."
"What does it matter?" said Jane. "Nobody cares twopence."
"_I_ care," said Sir Charles angrily. "No sensible person can
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Soul of the Far East by Percival Lowell: Such a survey has at least one advantage: the whole field of view
appears perfectly plain.
Surveying the subject, then, from this ego-altruistic position,
we can perceive why matrimony, as we practise it, should result in
increasing the personality of our race: for the reason namely that
psychical similarity determines the selection. At first sight,
indeed, such a natural affinity would seem to have little or nothing
to do with marriage. As far as outsiders are capable of judging,
unlikes appear to fancy one another quite as gratuitously as do
likes. Connubial couples are often anything but twin souls. Yet our
own dual use of the word "like" bears historic witness to the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum: "Easily enough," replied Glossie and Flossie.
Down to the edge of the roof they raced, and then, without pausing,
leaped through the air to the top of the next building, where a huge,
old-fashioned chimney stood.
"Don't be so long, this time," called Flossie, "or we shall never get
back to the Forest by daybreak."
Claus made a trip down this chimney also and found five children
sleeping in the house, all of whom were quickly supplied with toys.
When he returned the deer sprang to the next roof, but on descending
the chimney Claus found no children there at all. That was not often
the case in this village, however, so he lost less time than you might
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