Question

the pleasure of writing
by a. a. milne (excerpt)
the pleasure of writing is one of the essays in the book not that it matters. it was written in the early 1900s by british author a. a. milne, who is best known for his winnie - the - pooh stories.
(1) sometimes when the printer is waiting for an article which really should have been sent to him the day before, i sit at my desk and wonder if there is any possible subject in the whole world upon which i can possibly find anything to say. on one such occasion i left it to fate, which decided, by means of a dictionary opened at random, that i should deliver myself of a few thoughts about goldfish. (you will find this article later on in the book.) but to - day i do not need to bother about a subject. to - day i am without a care. nothing less has happened than that i have a new nib¹ in my pen.
(2) in the ordinary way, when shakespeare writes a tragedy, or mr. blank gives you one of his charming little essays, a certain amount of thought goes on before pen is put to paper. one cannot write \scene i. an open place. thunder and lightning. enter three witches,\ or \as i look up from my window, the nodding daffodils beckon to me to take the morning,\ one cannot give of ones best in this way on the spur of the moment. at least, others cannot. but when i have a new nib in my pen, then i can go straight from my breakfast to the blotting - paper, and a new sheet of foolscap fills itself
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select the correct answer from the drop - down menu.
complete the sentence by selecting how the author develops an idea in paragraph 3.
the author develops his point about not liking to take advice by
drop - down menu options: sharing an exchange with a husband and wife about art; describing a painter being unhappy using someone elses style; elaborating on shakespeares process for thinking and writing; explaining what he admires about herkomers paintings
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Explanation:

To solve this, we analyze the options in the context of developing the idea of not liking to take advice. However, from the given text (though paragraph 3 isn't fully shown, we can infer from the options), the correct approach is to match the author's method. The option "sharing an exchange with a husband and wife about art" (if we assume paragraph 3 has such an exchange to develop the point) or other options. But wait, maybe there's a mis - let's re - check. Wait, the original problem's paragraph 3 (not fully provided here) - but among the options, if we consider the author's development, the correct option (assuming standard literary analysis) would be:

We need to find how the author develops the idea of not liking to take advice. By analyzing the options, the relevant way (assuming the text's context) is through an exchange (the first option: sharing an exchange with a husband and wife about art) to illustrate the point about not taking advice.

Answer:

sharing an exchange with a husband and wife about art