| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: what I have done, and what is meant by it."
"See it where?"
"On the tombs. Why not? The Unknown Master of the Highgate
Slope! All the little, soft feminine hands, the nervous ugly
males, the hands of the flops, and the hands of the snatchers!
And Grundy's loose, lean, knuckly affair--Grundy the terror!--the
little wrinkles and the thumb! Only it ought to hold all the
others together--in a slightly disturbing squeeze....Like
Rodin's great Hand--you know the thing!"
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I forget how many days intervened between that last breaking off
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells: to him that he was not alone, but that with him was that same
being that in his former vision had called himself the Angel of
God. He knew this without knowing why he knew this, and either he
spoke and was answered, or he thought and his thought answered
him back. His state of mind on this occasion was altogether
different from the first vision of God; before it had been
spectacular, but now his perception was altogether
super-sensuous.
(And nevertheless and all the time it seemed that very faintly
he was still in his room.)
It was he who was the first to speak. The great Angel whom he
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Gentle Grafter by O. Henry: "'Humble,' says I. 'And United States Marshal was the berth.'
"'Oh, yes,' says Mrs. Avery. 'I have so many deals of this sort I
sometimes get them confused. Give me all the memoranda you have of the
case, Mr. Peters, and come back in four days. I think it can be
arranged by then.'
"So me and Andy goes back to our hotel and waits. Andy walks up and
down and chews the left end of his mustache.
"'A woman of high intellect and perfect beauty is a rare thing, Jeff,'
says he.
"'As rare,' says I, 'as an omelet made from the eggs of the fabulous
bird known as the epidermis,' says I.
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