| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Foolish Virgin by Thomas Dixon: the quilt from the kitchen floor, spread it over the
body, and lifted her eyes to Mary's. It was only too
plain.
Reason had gone.
She tipped close and put her fingers on her lips.
"Sh! We mustn't wake him. He's tired. Let him
sleep. It's my boy. He's come home. We'll fix him a
fine Christmas dinner. I've got a turkey. I'll bake a
cake----" she paused and laughed softly. "I've got
eggs too, fresh laid yesterday. We'll make egg-
nog all day and all night. I ain't had no Christmas
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw: needed is not logic but sense. There is no logical reason why young
persons should be allowed greater control of their property the day
after they are twenty-one than the day before it. There is no logical
reason why I, who strongly object to an adult standing over a boy of
ten with a Latin grammar, and saying, "you must learn this, whether
you want to or not," should nevertheless be quite prepared to stand
over a boy of five with the multiplication table or a copy book or a
code of elementary good manners, and practice on his docility to make
him learn them. And there is no logical reason why I should do for a
child a great many little offices, some of them troublesome and
disagreeable, which I should not do for a boy twice its age, or
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The White Moll by Frank L. Packard: necessary if you and the White Moll had both come together, for
then you would neither of you have got any further than that other
room. It would have ended there. But we weren't taking any chances.
I'll pay you the compliment of admitting that we weren't counting on
getting you off your guard any too easily if, as it happened, you
came alone, for, being alone, or if either of you were alone, there
was that little proposition that had to be settled, instead of just
knocking you on the head out there in the dark in that other room;
and so, as I say, we weren't overlooking any bets on account of the
little trouble it took to plant that table and the money. We tried
to think of everything!" Danglar paused for a moment to mock the
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