| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tom Sawyer, Detective by Mark Twain: Now we'll trot in and see the folks. And mind you we
don't know anything about any murder, or any di'monds,
or any thieves--don't you forget that."
I had to sigh a little over the way he had got it fixed.
I'd 'a' SOLD them di'monds--yes, sir--for twelve
thousand dollars; but I didn't say anything. It wouldn't
done any good. I says:
"But what are we going to tell your aunt Sally has made
us so long getting down here from the village, Tom?"
"Oh, I'll leave that to you," he says. "I reckon you
can explain it somehow."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring by George Bernard Shaw: conduct: Shelley himself makes extremely short work of Jupiter,
just as Siegfried does of Fafnir, Mime, and Wotan; and the fact
that Prometheus is saved from doing the destructive part of his
work by the intervention of that very nebulous personification of
Eternity called Demogorgon, does not in the least save the
situation, because, flatly, there is no such person as
Demogorgon, and if Prometheus does not pull down Jupiter himself,
no one else will. It would be exasperating, if it were not so
funny, to see these poets leading their heroes through blood and
destruction to the conclusion that, as Browning's David puts it
(David of all people!), "All's Love; yet all's Law."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Padre Ignacio by Owen Wister: given to them like deadly weapons, unable to measure the harm their
impulses may bring. Hence, even in their crimes, their hearts will
generally open soon to the one great key of love, while civilization
makes locks which that key cannot always fit at the first turn. And
coming to know this," said Padre Ignacio, fixing his eyes steadily upon
Gaston, "you will understand how great a privilege it is to help such
people, and how the sense of something accomplished--under God--should
bring Contentment with Renunciation."
"Yes," said Gaston Villere. Then, thinking of himself, "I can understand
it in a man like you."
"Do not speak of me at all!" exclaimed the Padre, almost passionately.
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