| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London: turns, it was he who puzzled her.
"You surely must have mistaken me," he lied glibly. "I remember saying
something about paying your car fare. We always do this, you know, but we
never, never pay amateurs. That would take the life and sparkle out of the
whole thing. No, Charley Welsh was stringing you. He gets paid nothing for his
turns. No amateur gets paid. The idea is ridiculous. However, here's fifty
cents. It will pay your sister's car fare also. And,"--very
suavely,--"speaking for the Loops, permit me to thank you for the kind and
successful contribution of your services."
That afternoon, true to her promise to Max Irwin, she placed her typewritten
copy into his hands. And while he ran over it, he nodded his head from time to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Figure in the Carpet by Henry James: miss it, my dear fellow, with inimitable assurance; the fact of
your being awfully clever and your article's being awfully nice
doesn't make a hair's breadth of difference. It's quite with you
rising young men," Vereker laughed, "that I feel most what a
failure I am!"
I listened with keen interest; it grew keener as he talked. "YOU a
failure - heavens! What then may your 'little point' happen to
be?"
"Have I got to TELL you, after all these years and labours?" There
was something in the friendly reproach of this - jocosely
exaggerated - that made me, as an ardent young seeker for truth,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In a German Pension by Katherine Mansfield: "No."
"There now, you see, that's what you're coming to! Who ever heard of
having children upon vegetables? It is not possible. But you never have
large families in England now; I suppose you are too busy with your
suffragetting. Now I have had nine children, and they are all alive, thank
God. Fine, healthy babies--though after the first one was born I had to--"
"How WONDERFUL!" I cried.
"Wonderful," said the Widow contemptuously, replacing the hairpin in the
knob which was balanced on the top of her head. "Not at all! A friend of
mine had four at the same time. Her husband was so pleased he gave a
supper-party and had them placed on the table. Of course she was very
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