| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde: GWENDOLEN. [Severely.] Had you never a brother of any kind?
JACK. [Pleasantly.] Never. Not even of an kind.
GWENDOLEN. I am afraid it is quite clear, Cecily, that neither of
us is engaged to be married to any one.
CECILY. It is not a very pleasant position for a young girl
suddenly to find herself in. Is it?
GWENDOLEN. Let us go into the house. They will hardly venture to
come after us there.
CECILY. No, men are so cowardly, aren't they?
[They retire into the house with scornful looks.]
JACK. This ghastly state of things is what you call Bunburying, I
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from First Inaugural Address by Abraham Lincoln: occur in practical administration. No foresight can anticipate,
nor any document of reasonable length contain, express provisions
for all possible questions. Shall fugitives from labor be surrendered
by national or State authority? The Constitution does not expressly say.
May Congress prohibit slavery in the Territories? The Constitution does not
expressly say. MUST Congress protect slavery in the Territories?
The Constitution does not expressly say.
From questions of this class spring all our constitutional controversies,
and we divide upon them into majorities and minorities. If the minority
will not acquiesce, the majority must, or the government must cease.
There is no other alternative; for continuing the government is
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson: forward, as I do myself, in the hope of your return. - Yours
sincerely,
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON.
And let me hear from you again!
Letter: TO CHARLES BAXTER
1ST DEC. '92.
. . . I have a novel on the stocks to be called THE JUSTICE-CLERK.
It is pretty Scotch, the Grand Premier is taken from Braxfield -
(Oh, by the by, send me Cockburn's MEMORIALS) - and some of the
story is - well - queer. The heroine is seduced by one man, and
finally disappears with the other man who shot him. . . . Mind you,
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