| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from In a German Pension by Katherine Mansfield: She shook back her hair. "I never know until the last moment. When I come
on the stage I wait for one moment and then I have the sensation as though
something struck me here,"--she placed her hand upon her collar
brooch--"and...words come!"
"Bend down a moment," whispered her mother. "Sonia, love, your skirt
safety-pin is showing at the back. Shall I come outside and fasten it
properly for you, or will you do it yourself?"
"Oh, mamma, please don't say such things," Sonia flushed and grew very
angry. "You know how sensitive I am to the slightest unsympathetic
impression at a time like this...I would rather my skirt dropped off my
body--"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Moran of the Lady Letty by Frank Norris: reflections of the stars. The Chinamen swarmed up the hatch-way,
voluble and shrill. Again the "Bertha Millner" lifted and sank,
the tubs sliding on the deck, the masts quivering like reeds, the
timbers groaning aloud with the strain. In the stern something
cracked and smashed. Then the trouble died away, the ripples
faded into the ocean, and the schooner settled to her keel, quite
motionless.
"Look," said Moran, her face toward the "Bertha's" stern. "The
rudder is out of the gudgeons." It was true--the "Bertha
Millner's" helm was unshipped.
There was no more sleep for any one on board that night. Wilbur
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pivot of Civilization by Margaret Sanger: employment, in poor-houses, hospitals, police and courts, jails and by
charitable organizations.''
To-day we are paying for the folly of the over-production--and its
consequences in permanent injury to plastic childhood--of yesterday.
To-morrow, we shall be forced to pay for our ruthless disregard of our
surplus children of to-day. the child-laborer of one or two decades
ago has become the shifting laborer of to-day, stunted, underfed,
illiterate, unskilled, unorganized and unorganizable. ``He is the
last person to be hired and the first to be fired.'' Boys and girls
under fourteen years of age are no longer permitted to work in
factories, mills, canneries and establishments whose products are to
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