| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Poems by T. S. Eliot: To early coffee-stands.
With the other masquerades
That time resumes,
One thinks of all the hands
That are raising dingy shades
In a thousand furnished rooms.
III
You tossed a blanket from the bed,
You lay upon your back, and waited;
You dozed, and watched the night revealing
The thousand sordid images
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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: but it will help them to understand what is coming."
"You understand, of course," the lean man put in gravely, "that what
you say may be used against you."
"I'll take the risk," I answered impatiently.
It took some time to tell the story of my worse than useless trip
to Pittsburg, and its sequel. They listened gravely, without
interruption.
"Mr. Hotchkiss here," I finished, "believes that the man Sullivan,
whom we are momentarily expecting, committed the crime. Mr.
McKnight is inclined to implicate Mrs. Conway, who stabbed Bronson
and then herself last night. As for myself, I am open to
The Man in Lower Ten |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Straight Deal by Owen Wister: single combat on the sea and showed the English that we too knew how to
sail and fight on the waves as hardily as Britannia (we won eleven out of
thirteen of the frigate and sloop actions), nevertheless she caught us or
blocked us up, and rioted unchecked along our coasts? You probably did
know that the British burned Washington, and you accordingly hated them
for this barbarous vandalism--but did you know that we had burned Toronto
a year earlier?
I left school knowing none of this--it wasn't in my school book, and I
learned it in mature years with amazement. I then learned also that
England, while she was fighting with us, had her hands full fighting
Bonaparte, that her war with us was a sideshow, and that this was
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