| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from When the Sleeper Wakes by H. G. Wells: sentence, and proceeded in a rather flatter note than
before with novel comments on the horrors of disorder.
"Law and order must be maintained," said the nearer
Babble Machine.
"But," began Graham.
"Don't ask questions here," said Asano, "or you
will be involved in an argument."
"Then let us go on," said Graham, "for I want to
know more of this."
As he and his companion pushed their way through
the excited crowd that swarmed beneath these voices,
When the Sleeper Wakes |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: insubstantial threat: "It is Work we need, not Charity."
There they were, half-phantom through the fog, a silent,
foot-dragging, interminable, grey procession. They carried wet,
dirty banners, they rattled boxes for pence; these men who had
not said "snap" in the right place, the men who had "snapped" too
eagerly, the men who had never said "snap," the men who had never
had a chance of saying "snap." A shambling, shameful stream they
made, oozing along the street, the gutter waste of competitive
civilisation. And we stood high out of it all, as high as if we
looked godlike from another world, standing in a room beautifully
lit and furnished, skillfully warmed, filled with costly things.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells: Seyffert displayed an intelligent interest in their food.
After lunch they had all gone out to the stones and the wall.
Half a dozen sunburnt children were putting one of the
partially overturned megaliths to a happy use by clambering
to the top of it and sliding on their little behinds down its
smooth and sloping side amidst much mirthful squealing.
Sir Richmond and Miss Grammont had walked round the old
circumvallation together, but Belinda Seyffert had strayed
away from them, professing an interest in flowers. It was not
so much that she felt they had to be left together that made
her do this as her own consciousness of being possessed by a
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