| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Paradise Lost by John Milton: A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow
Conspicuous with three lifted colours gay,
Betokening peace from God, and covenant new.
Whereat the heart of Adam, erst so sad,
Greatly rejoiced; and thus his joy broke forth.
O thou, who future things canst represent
As present, heavenly Instructer! I revive
At this last sight; assured that Man shall live,
With all the creatures, and their seed preserve.
Far less I now lament for one whole world
Of wicked sons destroyed, than I rejoice
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Mrs. Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw: so? Isnt he a tease? [She sits at the table]. Now that I think
of it, dearie, dont you go encouraging him. I'm sure he's a
regular good-for-nothing.
VIVIE [rising to fetch more books] I'm afraid so. Poor Frank! I
shall have to get rid of him; but I shall feel sorry for him,
though he's not worth it. That man Crofts does not seem to me to
be good for much either: is he? [She throws the books on the
table rather roughly].
MRS WARREN [galled by Vivie's indifference] What do you know of
men, child, to talk that way of them? Youll have to make up your
mind to see a good deal of Sir George Crofts, as he's a friend of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from American Notes by Rudyard Kipling: indelicate. My hosts talked for rather more than three hours,
and at the end seemed ready for three hours more.
But when the lieutenant--such a big, brave, gentle giant--rose to
his feet, he delivered what seemed to me as the speech of the
evening. I remember nearly the whole of it, and it ran
some-thing in this way:--"Gentlemen--It's very good of you to
give me this dinner and to tell me all these prettythings, but
what I want you to understand--the fact is, what we want and what
we ought to get at once, is a navy--more ships--lots of 'em--"
Then we howled the top of the roof off, and I for one fell in
love with Carlin on the spot. Wallah! He was a man.
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