| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: mixed up with grey-black mud. I was going back to baths and
decent food and aeronautics and Beatrice. I was going back to
Beatrice and my real life again--out of this well into which I
had fallen. It would have needed something more than
sea-sickness and quap fever to prevent my spirits rising.
I told the captain that I agreed with him that the British were
the scum of Europe, the westward drift of all the people, a
disgusting rabble, and I lost three pounds by attenuated retail
to Pollack at ha'penny nap and euchre.
And then you know, as we got out into the Atlantic this side of
Cape Verde, the ship began to go to pieces. I don't pretend for
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Twelve Stories and a Dream by H. G. Wells: with a certain branch of esoteric Masonry. Probably you know.
Or else--HOW?" He reflected still further. "I do not see I can do
any harm in telling you just the proper twist. After all, if you know,
you know; if you don't, you don't."
"I know nothing," said Clayton, "except what the poor devil let
out last night."
"Well, anyhow," said Sanderson, and placed his churchwarden very
carefully upon the shelf over the fireplace. Then very rapidly he
gesticulated with his hands.
"So?" said Clayton, repeating.
"So," said Sanderson, and took his pipe in hand again.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Prufrock/Other Observations by T. S. Eliot: Would it have been worth while
If one, settling a pillow or throwing off a shawl,
And turning toward the window, should say:
"That is not it at all,
That is not what I meant, at all."
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No I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;
Am an attendant lord, one that will do
To swell a progress, start a scene or two,
Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool,
Deferential, glad to be of use,
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