| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The American by Henry James: Newman wondered whom she was talking about, but just then an
opening among his neighbors enabled him to turn away, and he said
to himself that she was probably paying a tribute to British
propriety and playing at tender solicitude about her papa.
Was that miserable old man still treading the path of vice in her train?
Was he still giving her the benefit of his experience of affairs,
and had he crossed the sea to serve as her interpreter?
Newman walked some distance farther, and then began to retrace his steps
taking care not to traverse again the orbit of Mademoiselle Nioche.
At last he looked for a chair under the trees, but he had some
difficulty in finding an empty one. He was about to give up
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis: salt, she'll be glad to know you're out hustling, making some money to furnish
the home-nest, instead of doing the lovey-dovey. The kind of fellow that kicks
about working overtime, that wants to spend his evenings reading trashy novels
or spooning and exchanging a lot of nonsense and foolishness with some girl,
he ain't the kind of upstanding, energetic young man, with a future--and with
Vision!--that we want here. How about it? What's your Ideal, anyway? Do you
want to make money and be a responsible member of the community, or do you
want to be a loafer, with no Inspiration or Pep?"
Graff was not so amenable to Vision and Ideals as usual. "You bet I want to
make money! That's why I want that bonus! Honest, Mr. Babbitt, I don't want
to get fresh, but this Heiler house is a terror. Nobody'll fall for it. The
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: Meanwhile the public prosecutor went on with his speech.
"Gentlemen of the jury," gracefully swaying his body, "the fate
of society is to a certain extent in your power. Your verdict
will influence it. Grasp the full meaning of this crime, the
danger that awaits society from those whom I may perhaps be
permitted to call pathological individuals, such as Maslova.
Guard it from infection; guard the innocent and strong elements
of society from contagion or even destruction."
And as if himself overcome by the significance of the expected
verdict, the public prosecutor sank into his chair, highly
delighted with his speech.
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