| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: happened was that in the shuffling herd that passed before her by
far the greater part only passed--a proportion but just appreciable
stayed. Most of the elements swam straight away, lost themselves
in the bottomless common, and by so doing really kept the page
clear. On the clearness therefore what she did retain stood
sharply out; she nipped and caught it, turned it over and interwove
it.
CHAPTER VI
She met Mrs. Jordan when she could, and learned from her more and
more how the great people, under her gentle shake and after going
through everything with the mere shops, were waking up to the gain
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Turn of the Screw by Henry James: in the light of it, we lost all attention for everything else.
The last story, however incomplete and like the mere opening
of a serial, had been told; we handshook and "candlestuck,"
as somebody said, and went to bed.
I knew the next day that a letter containing the key had,
by the first post, gone off to his London apartments;
but in spite of--or perhaps just on account of--the eventual
diffusion of this knowledge we quite let him alone till
after dinner, till such an hour of the evening, in fact,
as might best accord with the kind of emotion on which our
hopes were fixed. Then he became as communicative as we could
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: them of their authority. But military officers are dependent on
the chief magistrate of the State, who is himself a civil
functionary, and the decision which condemns him is a blow upon
them all.
If we now compare the American and the European systems, we
shall meet with differences no less striking in the different
effects which each of them produces or may produce. In France
and in England the jurisdiction of political bodies is looked
upon as an extraordinary resource, which is only to be employed
in order to rescue society from unwonted dangers. It is not to
be denied that these tribunals, as they are constituted in
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