| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from An Unsocial Socialist by George Bernard Shaw: in constructing it, to secure a pleasant impression. It is not a
mere invention, but a compound of the words smile and eyelash. A
smile suggests good humor; eyelashes soften the expression and
are the only features that never blemish a face. Hence Smilash is
a sound that should cheer and propitiate. Yet it exasperates. It
is really very odd that it should have that effect, unless it is
that it raises expectations which I am unable to satisfy."
Miss Wilson looked at him doubtfully. He remained perfectly
grave. There was a pause. Then, as if she had made up her mind to
be offended, she said, "Good-morning," shortly.
"Good-morning, Miss Wilson. The son of a millionaire, like the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain: Next morning I heard Tom was a good deal better,
and they said Aunt Sally was gone to get a nap. So
I slips to the sick-room, and if I found him awake I
reckoned we could put up a yarn for the family that
would wash. But he was sleeping, and sleeping very
peaceful, too; and pale, not fire-faced the way he was
when he come. So I set down and laid for him to
wake. In about half an hour Aunt Sally comes gliding
in, and there I was, up a stump again! She motioned
me to be still, and set down by me, and begun to
whisper, and said we could all be joyful now, because
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Under the Andes by Rex Stout: us away, and, since we really had nothing in view save the
satisfaction of her whims, we consented. Salt Lake City was our
next resting-place, but Le Mire tired of it in a day.
"I shall see the Pacific," she said to Harry and me, and we
immediately set out for San Francisco.
Is it necessary for me to explain my attitude? But surely it
explains itself. For one thing, I was disinclined to leave Harry
in a position where he was so abundantly unable to take care of
himself. For another, I take amusement wherever it offers itself,
and I was most certainly not bored.
The vagaries and caprices of a beautiful woman are always
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