| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Myths and Myth-Makers by John Fiske: When we come to interrogate the poems themselves, we find in
them quite convincing evidence that they were originally
composed for the ear alone, and without reference to
manuscript assistance. They abound in catchwords, and in
verbal repetitions. The "Catalogue of Ships," as Mr. Gladstone
has acutely observed, is arranged in well-defined sections, in
such a way that the end of each section suggests the beginning
of the next one. It resembles the versus memoriales found in
old-fashioned grammars. But the most convincing proof of all
is to be found in the changes which Greek pronunciation went
through between the ages of Homer and Peisistratos. "At the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from American Notes by Rudyard Kipling: for a moment. As I drew breath the weary hands slackened their
hold, and I forgot to give him the butt.
A wild scutter in the water, a plunge, and a break for the
head-waters of the Clackamas was my reward, and the weary toil of
reeling in with one eye under the water and the other on the top
joint of the rod was renewed. Worst of all, I was blocking
California's path to the little landing bay aforesaid, and he had
to halt and tire his prize where he was.
"The father of all the salmon!" he shouted. "For the love of
Heaven, get your trout to bank, Johnny Bull!"
But I could do no more. Even the insult failed to move me. The
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells: on me?"
"You have to go through with it," said Dr. Martineau.
"I have to go through with it, but it's a hell of utterly
inglorious squabbling. They bait me. They have been fighting
the same fight within themselves that they fight with me.
They know exactly where I am, that I too am doing my job
against internal friction. The one thing before all others
that they want to do is to bring me down off my moral high
horse. And I loathe the high horse. I am in a position of
special moral superiority to men who are on the whole as good
men as I am or better. That shows all the time. You see the
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