| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Plutarch's Lives by A. H. Clough: clapping their hands, and crowning him with garlands and
flowers. Pompey was not then present in the senate, because it
is not lawful for generals in command of an army to come into
the city. But Marcellus rising up, said, that he would not sit
there hearing speeches, when he saw ten legions already passing
the Alps on their march toward the city, but on his own
authority would send someone to oppose them in defense of the
country.
Upon this the city went into mourning, as in a public calamity,
and Marcellus, accompanied by the senate, went solemnly through
the forum to meet Pompey, and made him this address. "I hereby
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Emma McChesney & Co. by Edna Ferber: cigar like mad, and wild-eyed for fear he's buying wrong? Why,
child, in our town, nobody carries a cane except the Elks when
they have their annual parade, and old man Schwenkel, who's lame.
And yet we all accepted that yellow walking-stick of Buck's. It
belonged to him. There isn't a skirt-buyer in the Middle West
that doesn't dream of him all night and push Featherlooms in the
store all day. Emma, I'm old and fat and fifty, but when I had
dinner with him at the Manitoba House that evening, I caught
myself making eyes at him, knowing that every woman in the
dining-room would have given her front teeth to be where I was."
After which extensive period, Ethel Morrissey helped herself to
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy: one by means of which Alexey Alexandrovitch had made his career.
The center of this circle was the Countess Lidia Ivanovna. It
was a set made up of elderly, ugly, benevolent, and godly women,
and clever, learned, and ambitious men. ONe of the clever people
belonging to the set had called it "the conscience of Petersburg
society." Alexey Alexandrovitch had the highest esteem for this
circle, and Anna with her special gift for getting on with every
one, had in the early days of her life in Petersburg made friends
in this circle also. Now, since her return from Moscow, she had
come to feel this set insufferable. It seemed to her that both
she and all of them wer insincere, and she fell so bored and ill
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