| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Glasses by Henry James: "Oh she doesn't object to me now!" smiled Mrs. Meldrum. "I'm going
to take her abroad; we shall be a pretty pair." I was struck with
this energy and after a moment I enquired the reason of it. "It's
to divert her mind," my friend replied, reddening again a little, I
thought. "We shall go next week: I've only waited to see how your
mother would be before starting." I expressed to her hereupon my
sense of her extraordinary merit and also that of the
inconceivability of Flora's fancying herself still in a situation
not to jump at the chance of marrying a man like Dawling. "She
says he's too ugly; she says he's too dreary; she says in fact he's
'nobody,'" Mrs. Meldrum pursued. "She says above all that he's not
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Mrs. Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw: wants to get married, no good can come of keeping her unmarried.
REV. S. [astounded] But married to h i m!--your daughter to my
son! Only think: it's impossible.
CROFTS. Of course it's impossible. Dont be a fool, Kitty.
MRS WARREN [nettled] Why not? Isnt my daughter good enough for
your son?
REV. S. But surely, my dear Mrs Warren, you know the reasons--
MRS WARREN [defiantly] I know no reasons. If you know any, you
can tell them to the lad, or to the girl, or to your
congregation, if you like.
REV. S. [collapsing helplessly into his chair] You know very well
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Master of the World by Jules Verne: neighboring states.
"This account of Lake Kirdall is necessary for the understanding of
the remarkable facts which we are about to report."
And this is what the Evening Star then reported in its startling
article. "For some time past, the fishermen have noticed a strange
upheaval in the waters of the lake. Sometimes it rises as if a wave
surged up from its depths. Even in perfectly calm weather, when there
is no wind whatever, this upheaval sometimes arises in a mass of foam.
"Tossed about by violent waves and unaccountable currents, boats have
been swept beyond all control. Sometimes they have been dashed one
against another, and serious damage has resulted.
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