| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain: tailors and dressmakers of New York; yet this has no perceptible
effect upon the grand fact: the educated eye never mistakes
those people for New-Yorkers. No, there is a godless grace,
and snap, and style about a born and bred New-Yorker which mere
clothing cannot effect.
'APRIL 19. This morning, struck into the region of full goatees--sometimes
accompanied by a mustache, but only occasionally.'
It was odd to come upon this thick crop of an obsolete and
uncomely fashion; it was like running suddenly across a forgotten
acquaintance whom you had supposed dead for a generation.
The goatee extends over a wide extent of country; and is accompanied
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: went into the next car and tried to make my wife promise not to
interfere. But Ida - Mrs. Sullivan - was firm, of course. She
said her father had papers, certificates and so on, that would stop
the marriage at once.
"She said, also, that her father was in our car, and that there
would be the mischief to pay in the morning. It was probably when
my sister tried to get the papers that he awakened, and she had to
do - what she did."
It was over. Save for a technicality or two, I was a free man.
Alison rose quietly and prepared to go; the men stood to let her
pass, save Sullivan who sat crouched in his chair, his face buried
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: The other bull, still squealing and enraged, followed
after his fellow. There was no bridle upon either, for
these strange creatures are controlled entirely by
suggestion--when they are controlled at all.
Even in the hands of the giant green men bridle reins
would be hopelessly futile against the mad savagery and
mastodonic strength of the thoat, and so they are guided
by that strange telepathic power with which the men
of Mars have learned to communicate in a crude way
with the lower orders of their planet.
With difficulty Carthoris urged the two beasts to the
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