| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Reign of King Edward the Third by William Shakespeare: Dost put it in my mind how foul she is.--
Go, fetch the Countess hither in thy hand,
And let her chase away these winter clouds,
For she gives beauty both to heaven and earth.
[Exit Lodowick.]
The sin is more to hack and hew poor men,
Than to embrace in an unlawful bed
The register of all rarities
Since Letherne Adam till this youngest hour.
[Enter Countess escorted by Lodowick.]
Go, Lodowick, put thy hand into my purse,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis: a friend of some of the strongest; most conservative men in the world--like
Lord Wycombe, this, uh, this big English nobleman that's so well known. And
you now, which would you rather do: be in with a lot of greasy mechanics and
laboring-men, or chum up to a real fellow like Lord Wycombe, and get invited
to his house for parties?"
"Well--gosh," sighed Ted.
The next week-end he came in joyously with, "Say, Dad, why couldn't I take
mining engineering instead of the academic course? You talk about
standing--maybe there isn't much in mechanical engineering, but the Miners,
gee, they got seven out of eleven in the new elections to Nu Tau Tau!"
CHAPTER XXVII
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: her circle in whom she recognised an equal. She was perfectly
aware that her imaginative life was the life in which she spent
most of her time; and she would have been ready, had it been at all
worth while, to contend that, since her outward occupation didn't
kill it, it must be strong indeed. Combinations of flowers and
green-stuff, forsooth! What SHE could handle freely, she said to
herself, was combinations of men and women. The only weakness in
her faculty came from the positive abundance of her contact with
the human herd; this was so constant, it had so the effect of
cheapening her privilege, that there were long stretches in which
inspiration, divination and interest quite dropped. The great
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