| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce: naked back. The latter rite was performed by the public hangman, and
it assured moderation in the plaintiff's choice of a switch.
RED-SKIN, n. A North American Indian, whose skin is not red -- at
least not on the outside.
REDUNDANT, adj. Superfluous; needless; _de trop_.
The Sultan said: "There's evidence abundant
To prove this unbelieving dog redundant."
To whom the Grand Vizier, with mien impressive,
Replied: "His head, at least, appears excessive."
Habeeb Suleiman
Mr. Debs is a redundant citizen.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Pupil by Henry James: "My darling, you're too quaint!" his mother exclaimed, putting out
to caress him a practised but ineffectual hand. He slipped out of
it, but looked with intelligent innocent eyes at Pemberton, who had
already had time to notice that from one moment to the other his
small satiric face seemed to change its time of life. At this
moment it was infantine, yet it appeared also to be under the
influence of curious intuitions and knowledges. Pemberton rather
disliked precocity and was disappointed to find gleams of it in a
disciple not yet in his teens. Nevertheless he divined on the spot
that Morgan wouldn't prove a bore. He would prove on the contrary
a source of agitation. This idea held the young man, in spite of a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Songs of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: Hear about the graves of the martyrs the peewees crying,
And hear no more at all.
Vailima.
XLIV - EVENSONG
THE embers of the day are red
Beyond the murky hill.
The kitchen smokes: the bed
In the darkling house is spread:
The great sky darkens overhead,
And the great woods are shrill.
So far have I been led,
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