| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine: possible," Leroy said tartly.
"You're such a slap-up dude you'd ought to be a hotel clerk, cap.
You're sure wasted out here.
So we boys got together and held a little election. Consequence
is, we--fact is, we--"
Neil stuck, but Reilly came to his rescue.
"We elected York captain of this outfit."
"To fill the vacancy created by my resignation. Poor York! You're
the sacrifice, are you? On the whole, I think you fellows have
made a wise choice. York's game, and he won't squeal on you,
which is more than I could say of Reilly, or the play actor, or
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Night and Day by Virginia Woolf: sort of tenderness for him, a zealous care for his susceptibilities,
and, after all, she considered, thinking of her father and mother,
what is love?
Naturally, with her face, position, and background, she had experience
of young men who wished to marry her, and made protestations of love,
but, perhaps because she did not return the feeling, it remained
something of a pageant to her. Not having experience of it herself,
her mind had unconsciously occupied itself for some years in dressing
up an image of love, and the marriage that was the outcome of love,
and the man who inspired love, which naturally dwarfed any examples
that came her way. Easily, and without correction by reason, her
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Blix by Frank Norris: can, and we're all right."
"But supposing SHE recognizes us!"
"Supposing she does--what then. How ARE they to know that we
wrote the letters?"
"Sh, Blix, not so loud! They know by now that THEY didn't."
"But it seems that it hasn't made any difference to them; they are
married. And besides, they wouldn't speak about putting
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