| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells: him, a most difficult language demanding new sets of visual images
because of its strange alphabet. Is it any wonder that for a time
he failed to observe that Prothero was involved in some entirely
disconnected affair.
They were staying at the big Cosmopolis bazaar in the Theatre
Square. Thither, through the doors that are opened by distraught-
looking men with peacocks' feathers round their caps, came Benham's
friends and guides to take him out and show him this and that. At
first Prothero always accompanied Benham on these expeditions; then
he began to make excuses. He would stay behind in the hotel. Then
when Benham returned Prothero would have disappeared. When the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Figure in the Carpet by Henry James: He'd call it letters, he'd call it life, but it was all one thing.
In what he said I now seemed to understand that he spoke equally
for Gwendolen, to whom, as soon as Mrs. Erme was sufficiently
better to allow her a little leisure, he made a point of
introducing me. I remember our going together one Sunday in August
to a huddled house in Chelsea, and my renewed envy of Corvick's
possession of a friend who had some light to mingle with his own.
He could say things to her that I could never say to him. She had
indeed no sense of humour and, with her pretty way of holding her
head on one side, was one of those persons whom you want, as the
phrase is, to shake, but who have learnt Hungarian by themselves.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from 1984 by George Orwell: and scrubby hair.
'Has it ever occurred to you,' he said, 'that the whole history of English
poetry has been determined by the fact that the English language lacks
rhymes?'
No, that particular thought had never occurred to Winston. Nor, in the
circumstances, did it strike him as very important or interesting.
'Do you know what time of day it is?' he said.
Ampleforth looked startled again. 'I had hardly thought about it. They
arrested me--it could be two days ago--perhaps three.' His eyes flitted
round the walls, as though he half expected to find a window somewhere.
'There is no difference between night and day in this place. I do not see
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