| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Emma McChesney & Co. by Edna Ferber: York apartment! I'd have signed the lease if the plaster had
been falling in chunks and the bathtub had been zinc."
"That's because fireplaces mean home--in our minds," said Buck.
He sat looking into the heart of the glow. There fell another of
those comfortable silences.
"T. A., I--I want to tell you that I know I've been acting the
cat ever since I got home from South America and found that you
had taken charge. You see, you had spoiled me. The thing that
has happened to me is the thing that always happens to those who
assume to be dictators. I just want you to know, now, that I'm
glad and proud and happy because you have come into your own. It
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson: you think of it for a year? Since then I may say I have done
nothing beyond draft three chapters of another novel, THE JUSTICE-
CLERK, which ought to be shorter and a blower - at least if it
don't make a spoon, it will spoil the horn of an Aurochs (if that's
how it should be spelt).
On the hot water side it may entertain you to know that I have been
actually sentenced to deportation by my friends on Mulinuu, C. J.
Cedercrantz, and Baron Senfft von Pilsach. The awful doom,
however, declined to fall, owing to Circumstances over Which. I
only heard of it (so to speak) last night. I mean officially, but
I had walked among rumours. The whole tale will be some day put
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Arrow of Gold by Joseph Conrad: was a frequent visitor at the Pavilion, though I, personally, never
talked with him very much in Henry Allegre's lifetime. Other men
were more interesting, and he himself was rather reserved in his
manner to me. He was an international politician and financier - a
nobody. He, like many others, was admitted only to feed and amuse
Henry Allegre's scorn of the world, which was insatiable - I tell
you."
"Yes," said Mills. "I can imagine."
"But I know. Often when we were alone Henry Allegre used to pour
it into my ears. If ever anybody saw mankind stripped of its
clothes as the child sees the king in the German fairy tale, it's
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