| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald: supper--if you want any." He opened the door. "Come in."
"No, thanks. But I'd be glad if you'd order me the taxi. I'll wait
outside."
Jordan put her hand on my arm.
"Won't you come in, Nick?"
"No, thanks."
I was feeling a little sick and I wanted to be alone. But Jordan lingered
for a moment more.
"It's only half-past nine," she said.
I'd be damned if I'd go in; I'd had enough of all of them for one day,
and suddenly that included Jordan too. She must have seen something of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Start in Life by Honore de Balzac: country. Come, Pierrotin, take a glass! It is a great pity your horses
can't take one, too; we might go faster."
"Forward, march!" cried Pierrotin, amid a mighty cracking of whips,
after the travellers were again boxed up.
It was now eleven o'clock. The weather, which had been cloudy,
cleared; the breeze swept off the mists, and the blue of the sky
appeared in spots; so that when the coucou trundled along the narrow
strip of road from Saint-Denis to Pierrefitte, the sun had fairly
drunk up the last floating vapors of the diaphanous veil which swathed
the scenery of that famous region.
"Well, now, tell us why you left your friend the pacha," said Pere
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Chinese Boy and Girl by Isaac Taylor Headland: with paper, and had small wires protruding the sixteenth of
an inch below the bottom of the skirt. He put them all on
a brass tray, the edge of which he struck with a small stick
to make it vibrate, thus causing the dancers to turn round
and round in every direction.
The next package contained a number of clay beggars.
Two were fighting, one about to smash his clay pot over
the other's head: another had his pot on his head for a lark,
a third was eating from his, while others were carrying theirs
in their hand. One had a sore leg to which he called attention
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