| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Blix by Frank Norris: pretty. I never saw her but that once. Only afterward I got her
picture from a native woman of Trincomalee who was house-keeper at
the Residency where the governor of the island lived. Somehow I
never could care for other women after that, and I ain't never
married for that reason."
"No, no, of course not! exclaimed Travis, in a low voice as the
old fellow paused.
"Fine, fine; oh, fine as gold!" murmured Condy, under his breath.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: been sold long since to Tarawa, Apaiang, and Pleasant Island;
places unheard of by the general reader, where obscure inhabitants
paid for these instruments of death in money or in labour, misused
them as it was known they would be misused, and had been disarmed
by force. The EBER had brought back the guns to a German counter,
whence many must have been originally sold; and was here engaged,
like a shopboy, in their distribution to fresh purchasers. Such is
the vicious circle of the traffic in weapons of war. Another aid
of a more metaphysical nature was ministered by the EBER to
Tamasese, in the shape of uncountable German flags. The full
history of this epidemic of bunting falls to be told in the next
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Odyssey by Homer: more to do in this house. For how, sir, shall you be able to
learn whether or no I am superior to others of my sex both in
goodness of heart and understanding, if I let you dine in my
cloisters squalid and ill clad? Men live but for a little
season; if they are hard, and deal hardly, people wish them ill
so long as they are alive, and speak contemptuously of them when
they are dead, but he that is righteous and deals righteously,
the people tell of his praise among all lands, and many shall
call him blessed."
Ulysses answered, "Madam, I have foresworn rugs and blankets
from the day that I left the snowy ranges of Crete to go on
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