| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Main Street by Sinclair Lewis: he himself had seen, two years ago. When Kennicott boasted,
"We went through the mission at Santa Barbara," Harry
broke in, "Yeh, that's an interesting old mission. Say, I'll
never forget that hotel there, doc. It was swell. Why, the
rooms were made just like these old monasteries. Juanita
and I went from Santa Barbara to San Luis Obispo. You folks
go to San Luis Obispo?"
"No, but----"
"Well you ought to gone to San Luis Obispo. And then
we went from there to a ranch, least they called it a ranch----"
Kennicott got in only one considerable narrative, which
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from 1492 by Mary Johntson: if schism arose in Christendom, his heirs must to their uttermost
support His Holiness the Pope, and give all and die,
if need be, defending the Church of God. And, where it
was possible and not contrary to the service and the claims
of the Sovereigns of Spain, ``let them give aid and service
to that noble city of Genoa from which we all spring.''
Such and such moneys, accruing, were to be applied to
making fit marriages for the daughters of the line.
And let Don Diego his son build in the island of Hispaniola
a church and call it Santa Maria de la Concepcion, a
church and a hospital and a chapel where masses might be
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Love and Friendship by Jane Austen: support the sight of my Augustus in so cruel a confinement--my
feelings are sufficiently shocked by the RECITAL, of his
Distress, but to behold it will overpower my Sensibility." As I
perfectly agreed with her in the Justice of her Sentiments the
Postilion was instantly directed to return into the Country. You
may perhaps have been somewhat surprised my Dearest Marianne,
that in the Distress I then endured, destitute of any support,
and unprovided with any Habitation, I should never once have
remembered my Father and Mother or my paternal Cottage in the
Vale of Uske. To account for this seeming forgetfullness I must
inform you of a trifling circumstance concerning them which I
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