| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Some Reminiscences by Joseph Conrad: servant in the act of stealing away with a japanned tin box, they
tore it from him, and because he resisted they threw him out of
the dining-room window. The house was on one floor but raised
well above the ground, and the fall was so serious that the man
remained lying stunned till the cook and a stable-boy ventured
forth at dusk from their hiding-places and picked him up. By
that time the mob had departed carrying off the tin box, which
they supposed to be full of paper money. Some distance from the
house in the middle of a field they broke it open. They found
inside documents engrossed on parchment and the two crosses of
the Legion of Honour and For Valour. At the sight of these
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie: words "Esthonia Glassware Co.," and the address of a city office.
Mr. Whittington spoke again:
"If you will call upon me to-morrow morning at eleven o'clock, I
will lay the details of my proposition before you."
"At eleven o'clock?" said Tuppence doubtfully.
"At eleven o'clock."
Tuppence made up her mind.
"Very well. I'll be there."
"Thank you. Good evening."
He raised his hat with a flourish, and walked away. Tuppence
remained for some minutes gazing after him. Then she gave a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In a German Pension by Katherine Mansfield: Godowska. Such a sensation did he create that he was recalled to play a
Bavarian dance, which he acknowledged was to be taken as a breathing
exercise rather than an artistic achievement. Frau Godowska kept time to
it with a fan.
Followed the very young gentleman who piped in a tenor voice that he loved
somebody, "with blood in his heart and a thousand pains." Fraulein Sonia
acted a poison scene with the assistance of her mother's pill vial and the
arm-chair replaced by a "chaise longue"; a young girl scratched a lullaby
on a young fiddle; and the Herr Professor performed the last sacrificial
rites on the altar of the afflicted children by playing the National
Anthem.
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