| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis: from us cranks in the office."
She rose and gathered her pencils. "Oh, nobody's cranky here I think I can
get it copied after I do the letters."
She was gone. Babbitt utterly repudiated the view that he had been trying to
discover how approachable was Miss McGoun. "Course! knew there was nothing
doing!" he said. IV
Eddie Swanson, the motor-car agent who lived across the street from Babbitt,
was giving a Sunday supper. His wife Louetta, young Louetta who loved jazz in
music and in clothes and laughter, was at her wildest. She cried, "We'll have
a real party!" as she received the guests. Babbitt had uneasily felt that to
many men she might be alluring; now he admitted that to himself she was
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Heroes by Charles Kingsley: fell into the sea, and died; so it is called the AEgean to
this day.
And now Theseus was king of Athens, and he guarded it and
ruled it well.
For he killed the bull of Marathon, which had killed
Androgeos, Minos' son; and he drove back the famous Amazons,
the warlike women of the East, when they came from Asia, and
conquered all Hellas, and broke into Athens itself. But
Theseus stopped them there, and conquered them, and took
Hippolute their queen to be his wife. Then he went out to
fight against the Lapithai, and Peirithoos their famous king:
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Master Key by L. Frank Baum: cheerfulness. He moved along slowly, hovering with curious interest
over the quaint and picturesque villages and watching the industrious
Japanese patiently toiling at their tasks. Just before he reached
Tokio he came to a military fort, and for nearly an hour watched the
skilful maneuvers of a regiment of soldiers at their morning drill.
They were not very big people, compared with other nations, but they
seemed alert and well trained, and the boy decided it would require a
brave enemy to face them on a field of battle.
Having at length satisfied his curiosity as to Japanese life and
customs Rob prepared for his long flight across the Pacific Ocean.
By consulting his map he discovered that should he maintain his course
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