| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories by Mark Twain: the new creature uses it.
TUESDAY.--Been examining the great waterfall. It is the finest thing
on the estate, I think. The new creature calls it Niagara Falls--
why, I am sure I do not know. Says it LOOKS like Niagara Falls.
That is not a reason, it is mere waywardness and imbecility.
I get no chance to name anything myself. The new creature names
everything that comes along, before I can get in a protest.
And always that same pretext is offered--it LOOKS like the thing.
There is a dodo, for instance. Says the moment one looks at it
one sees at a glance that it "looks like a dodo." It will have to
keep that name, no doubt. It wearies me to fret about it, and it
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini: It disconcerted him to have to deal with a man who insisted upon
taking him so literally. He had expected that Andre-Louis would
have come contritely to admit his fault and beg to be taken back
into favour. He said so.
"But how could I hope that you meant less than you said, monsieur?
You were so very definite in your declaration. What expressions of
contrition could have served me without a purpose of amendment?
And I had no notion of amending. We may yet be thankful for that."
"Thankful?"
"I am a representative. I have certain powers. I am very
opportunely returning to Paris. Can I serve you where Rougane
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad: discrimination at all. Bamtz could not have imposed on him.
Moreover, everybody knew what Bamtz was. He was a loafer with a
beard. When I think of Bamtz, the first thing I see is that long
black beard and a lot of propitiatory wrinkles at the corners of
two little eyes. There was no such beard from here to Polynesia,
where a beard is a valuable property in itself. Bamtz's beard was
valuable to him in another way. You know how impressed Orientals
are by a fine beard. Years and years ago, I remember, the grave
Abdullah, the great trader of Sambir, unable to repress signs of
astonishment and admiration at the first sight of that imposing
beard. And it's very well known that Bamtz lived on Abdullah off
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