| The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Contrast by Royall Tyler: belly full, where the old creature's a-dying.
JESSAMY
"And she asked her husband"--[Bell rings.] My
master's bell! he's returned, I fear.--Here, Mr. Jona-
than, take this gamut; and I make no doubt but with
a few years' close application, you may be able to
smile gracefully." [Exeunt severally.
SCENE II.
CHARLOTTE'S Apartment.
Enter MANLY.
MANLY
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from 1984 by George Orwell: He rolled up the completed bundle of work and slid it into the pneumatic
tube. Eight minutes had gone by. He re-adjusted his spectacles on his nose,
sighed, and drew the next batch of work towards him, with the scrap of
paper on top of it. He flattened it out. On it was written, in a large
unformed handwriting:
I LOVE YOU.
For several seconds he was too stunned even to throw the incriminating
thing into the memory hole. When he did so, although he knew very well the
danger of showing too much interest, he could not resist reading it once
again, just to make sure that the words were really there.
For the rest of the morning it was very difficult to work. What was even
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