| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Options by O. Henry: was tried on Bud first.
"Mr. Cunningham," said Ileen, with her dazzling smile, after she had
sung When the Leaves Begin to Turn, "what do you really think of my
voice? Frankly and honestly, now, as you know I want you to always be
toward me."
Bud squirmed in his chair at his chance to show the sincerity that he
knew was required of him.
"Tell you the truth, Miss Ileen," he said, earnestly, "you ain't got
much more voice than a weasel--just a little squeak, you know. Of
course, we all like to hear you sing, for it's kind of sweet and
soothin' after all, and you look most as mighty well sittin' on the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from U. S. Project Trinity Report by Carl Maag and Steve Rohrer: Pages.
8. Headquarters, 9812th Technical Service Unit, Provisional
Detachment No. I (Company "B"). [Extract from: Daily Diary,
Provisional Detachment No. 1 (Company "B"), 9812th Technical Service
Unit.] Army Corps of Engineers, Department of War. [Santa Fe, NM.]
14 July 1945. 2 Pages.**
9. Headquarters, Special Service Detachment. Supplemental Special
Guard Orders, with Appendix. Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory,
Manhattan Engineer District. [Alamogordo, NM.] 14 July 1945. 4
Pages.**
10. Hempelmann, L. H., M.D. [Extracts from: "Preparation and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy: He merely said "Well?" with the very reverse of a smile.
"They are married."
"Yes--of course they are!" he returned. She observed, however, the hard
strain upon his lip as he spoke.
"Anny says she has heard from Belinda, her relation out at Marygreen,
that it was very sad, and curious!"
"How do you mean sad? She wanted to marry him again, didn't she?
And he her!"
"Yes--that was it. She wanted to in one sense, but not in the other.
Mrs. Edlin was much upset by it all, and spoke out her mind at Phillotson.
But Sue was that excited about it that she burnt her best embroidery
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