| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Heap O' Livin' by Edgar A. Guest: There's nothing that builds up a toil-weary
soul........................................ 102
There was a bear -- his name was Jim.......... 134
The skies are blue and the sun is out......... 78
The sumac's flaming scarlet................... 136
The things that haven't been done before...... 172
The things that make a soldier great.......... 114
The world's too busy now to pause............. 92
'Tis better to have tried in vain............. 83
To do your little bit of toil................. 133
To gentle ways I am inclined.................. 90
A Heap O' Livin' |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The American by Henry James: Late in the evening Newman went to Mrs. Tristram's
and found Tom Tristram by the domestic fireside.
"I'm glad to see you back in Paris," this gentleman declared.
"You know it's really the only place for a white man to live."
Mr. Tristram made his friend welcome, according to his
own rosy light, and offered him a convenient resume
of the Franco-American gossip of the last six months.
Then at last he got up and said he would go for half an hour
to the club. "I suppose a man who has been for six months
in California wants a little intellectual conversation.
I'll let my wife have a go at you."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Europeans by Henry James: her visit to her American relations. It is not exactly
apparent why she should have termed this enterprise a failure,
inasmuch as she had been treated with the highest distinction
for which allowance had been made in American institutions.
Her irritation came, at bottom, from the sense, which, always present,
had suddenly grown acute, that the social soil on this big,
vague continent was somehow not adapted for growing those plants whose
fragrance she especially inclined to inhale and by which she liked
to see herself surrounded--a species of vegetation for which she
carried a collection of seedlings, as we may say, in her pocket.
She found her chief happiness in the sense of exerting a certain
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