| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from War and the Future by H. G. Wells: it some day, and they had better get their experience while
they're young and capable of learning by it. I did."
I like N's ideas. "Practically," I said, "you've been a public
official. You've treated your business like a public service."
That was his idea.
"Would you mind if it was a public service?"
He reflected, and some disagreeable memory darkened his face.
"Under the politicians?" he said.
I took the train of thought N had set going abroad with me next
day. I had the good luck to meet men who were interesting
industrially. Captain Pirelli, my guide in Italy, has a name
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Love Songs by Sara Teasdale: Night Song at Amalfi
The Look
A Winter Night
A Cry
Gifts
But Not to Me
Song at Capri
Child, Child
Love Me
Pierrot
Wild Asters
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad: It is also certain that he had brought some ready-made suspicions
with him, and that he viewed my politeness as a strange and
unnatural phenomenon. And yet how else could I have received him?
Not heartily! That was impossible for psychological reasons,
which I need not state here. My only object was to keep off
his inquiries. Surlily? Yes, but surliness might have provoked
a point-blank question. From its novelty to him and from its nature,
punctilious courtesy was the manner best calculated to restrain the man.
But there was the danger of his breaking through my defense bluntly.
I could not, I think, have met him by a direct lie, also for psychological
(not moral) reasons. If he had only known how afraid I was of
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