| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Glasses by Henry James: "Oh Flora can't keep a secret!"--Mrs. Meldrum made it light. She
went up to poor Dawling and laid a motherly hand upon him.
"It's all right--it's just as it ought to be: don't think about
her ever any more." Then as he met this adjuration with a stare
from which thought, and of the most defiant and dismal, fairly
protruded, the excellent woman put up her funny face and tenderly
kissed him on the cheek.
CHAPTER X
I have spoken of these reminiscences as of a row of coloured beads,
and I confess that as I continue to straighten out my chaplet I am
rather proud of the comparison. The beads are all there, as I
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from War and the Future by H. G. Wells: front. Aerial ascendancy, properly utilised, is victory. But
the mobile armoured big gun and the Tank as a machine-gun
silencer must enormously facilitate an advance against the
blinded enemy. Neither of them can advance against properly
aimed big gun fire. That has to be disposed of before they make
their entrance. It remains the function of the aeroplane to
locate the hostile big guns and to direct the /tir de
demolition/ upon them before the advance begins--
possibly even to bomb them out. But hitherto, after the
destruction of driving back of the defender's big guns has been
effected, the dug-out and the machine gun have still inflicted
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from One Basket by Edna Ferber: between Jo's eyes--a wrinkle that had no business there at
twenty-seven. Then Jo's mother died, leaving him handicapped by
a deathbed promise, the three sisters, and a
three-story-and-basement house on Calumet Avenue. Jo's wrinkle
became a fixture.
"Joey," his mother had said, in her high, thin voice, "take
care of the girls."
"I will, Ma," Jo had choked.
"Joey," and the voice was weaker, "promise me you won't marry
till the girls are all provided for." Then as Jo had hesitated,
appalled: "Joey, it's my dying wish. Promise!"
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