| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde: . .
LANE. Yes, sir. [Handing sherry.]
ALGERNON. I hope to-morrow will be a fine day, Lane.
LANE. It never is, sir.
ALGERNON. Lane, you're a perfect pessimist.
LANE. I do my best to give satisfaction, sir.
[Enter JACK. LANE goes off.]
JACK. There's a sensible, intellectual girl! the only girl I ever
cared for in my life. [ALGERNON is laughing immoderately.] What
on earth are you so amused at?
ALGERNON. Oh, I'm a little anxious about poor Bunbury, that in
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from 1492 by Mary Johntson: India by way of Ocean-Sea.
King Boabdil gave up his city to King Ferdinand and
Queen Isabella. Over Granada, high against the bright sky,
rose and floated the banners. Cannon, the big lombards,
roared. Mars' music crashed out, then the trumpets ceased
their crying and instead spread a mighty chanting. _Te Deum
Laudamus!_
At last the massed brightness out in the plain quivered
and parted. The pageantry broke, wide curving and returning
with some freedom but with order too, into Santa Fe.
I saw the Queen and the King with their children, and the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad: to his books, which were in apple-pie order.
"Everything else in the station was in a muddle--heads, things, buildings.
Strings of dusty niggers with splay feet arrived and departed; a stream
of manufactured goods, rubbishy cottons, beads, and brass-wire set into
the depths of darkness, and in return came a precious trickle of ivory.
"I had to wait in the station for ten days--an eternity.
I lived in a hut in the yard, but to be out of the chaos
I would sometimes get into the accountant's office.
It was built of horizontal planks, and so badly put together that,
as he bent over his high desk, he was barred from neck
to heels with narrow strips of sunlight. There was no need
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