| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Battle of the Books by Jonathan Swift: All humble worth she strove to raise;
Would not be praised, yet loved to praise.
The learned met with free approach,
Although they came not in a coach.
Some clergy too she would allow,
Nor quarreled at their awkward bow.
But this was for Cadenus' sake;
A gownman of a different make.
Whom Pallas, once Vanessa's tutor,
Had fixed on for her coadjutor.
But Cupid, full of mischief, longs
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield: yellow-furry, with striped legs. She drew her legs up under her and leaned
over the table. She felt she was a bee.
"A ninseck must be an animal," she said stoutly. "It makes a noise. It's
not like a fish."
"I'm a bull, I'm a bull!" cried Pip. And he gave such a tremendous bellow-
-how did he make that noise?--that Lottie looked quite alarmed.
"I'll be a sheep," said little Rags. "A whole lot of sheep went past this
morning."
"How do you know?"
"Dad heard them. Baa!" He sounded like the little lamb that trots behind
and seems to wait to be carried.
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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: flowers as possible with the stick of his mother's parasol--followed the
three others--then myself--and the lovers in the rear. And above the
conversation of the advance party I had the privilege of hearing these
delicious whispers.
Fritz: "Do you love me?" Elsa: "Nu--yes." Fritz passionately: "But how
much?" To which Elsa never replied--except with "How much do YOU love ME?"
Fritz escaped that truly Christian trap by saying, "I asked you first."
It grew so confusing that I slipped in front of Frau Kellermann--and walked
in the peaceful knowledge that she was blossoming and I was under no
obligation to inform even my nearest and dearest as to the precise capacity
of my affections. "What right have they to ask each other such questions
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