| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The First Men In The Moon by H. G. Wells: the Grand Lunar for purposes of reference. (Not a thing in lunar science,
not a point of view or method of thinking, that these wonderful beings did
not carry in their heads!) Followed guards and porters, and then Phi-oo's
shivering brain borne also on a litter. Then came Tsi-puff in a slightly
less important litter; then myself on a litter of greater elegance than
any other, and surrounded by my food and drink attendants. More trumpeters
came next, splitting the ear with vehement outcries, and then several big
brains, special correspondents one might well call them, or
historiographers, charged with the task of observing and remembering every
detail of this epoch-making interview. A company of attendants, bearing
and dragging banners and masses of scented fungus and curious symbols,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Virginibus Puerisque by Robert Louis Stevenson: would serve at least to keep love generous and great-hearted.
Nor is it quite a baseless superstition after all. Other
lovers are hugely interested. They strike the nicest balance
between pity and approval, when they see people aping the
greatness of their own sentiments. It is an understood thing
in the play, that while the young gentlefolk are courting on
the terrace, a rough flirtation is being carried on, and a
light, trivial sort of love is growing up, between the footman
and the singing chambermaid. As people are generally cast for
the leading parts in their own imaginations, the reader can
apply the parallel to real life without much chance of going
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: was lost as soon as I saw your beatific look on the day you got
back with Nora. The first week I came none of you could do enough
for me. Now it's all Nora, darling." She mimicked gayly his
intonation.
"Well, ma'am, it's this way," explained the foreman with a grin.
" Y'u're right pleasant and friendly, but the boys have got a
savvy way down deep that y'u'd shuck that friendliness awful
sudden if any of them dropped around with 'Object, Matrimony' in
their manner. Consequence is, they're loaded down to the ground
with admiration of their boss, but they ain't presumptuous enough
to expaict any more. I had notions, mebbe, I'd cut more ice, me
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