| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from In a German Pension by Katherine Mansfield: "I know," she said, "I know perfectly well--but I can't help the way I'm
built...Are you going?"
He put on his gloves.
"Well," he said, "what's going to happen to us now?"
Again she shrugged her shoulders.
"I haven't the slightest idea. I never have--just let things occur."
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"All alone?" cried Victor. "Has Max been here?"
"He only stayed a moment, and wouldn't even have tea. I sent him home to
change his clothes...He was frightfully boring."
"You poor darling, your hair's coming down. I'll fix it, stand still a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw: additional inducement to pack him off to school.
In school, he finds himself in a dual world, under two dispensations.
There is the world of the boys, where the point of honor is to be
untameable, always ready to fight, ruthless in taking the conceit out
of anyone who ventures to give himself airs of superior knowledge or
taste, and generally to take Lucifer for one's model. And there is
the world of the masters, the world of discipline, submission,
diligence, obedience, and continual and shameless assumption of moral
and intellectual authority. Thus the schoolboy hears both sides, and
is so far better off than the homebred boy who hears only one. But
the two sides are not fairly presented. They are presented as good
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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: motoring; then he would have a brown deer-stalker cap and a fur
suit of esquimaux cut with a sort of boot-end to the trousers.
Of an evening he would wear white waistcoats and plain gold
studs. He hated diamonds. "Flashy," he said they were. "Might
as well wear--an income tax-receipt. All very well for Park
Lane. Unsold stock. Not my style. Sober financier, George."
So much for his visible presence. For a time it was very
familiar to the world, for at the crest of the boom he allowed
quite a number of photographs and at least one pencil sketch to
be published in the sixpenny papers.
His voice declined during those years from his early tenor to a
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