| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Manon Lescaut by Abbe Prevost: monster B----. `No!'cried I; `he has not gained Manon's heart;
he may have seduced her by charms, or by drugs; he may have even
brutally violated her. Manon loves me. Do I not know that well?
He must have terrified her with a poniard, to induce her to
abandon me.' What must he not have done to have robbed me of my
angelic mistress? Oh Heaven! Heaven! can it be possible that
Manon deceived me, or that she has ceased to love me!
"As I continued to rave about returning at once to Paris, and
was perpetually starting up with that purpose, my father clearly
saw that while the paroxysm lasted, no arguments could pacify me.
He conducted me to one of the upper rooms, and left two servants
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Jolly Corner by Henry James: myself. He's the just so totally other person. But I do want to
see him," he added. "And I can. And I shall."
Their eyes met for a minute while he guessed from something in hers
that she divined his strange sense. But neither of them otherwise
expressed it, and her apparent understanding, with no protesting
shock, no easy derision, touched him more deeply than anything yet,
constituting for his stifled perversity, on the spot, an element
that was like breatheable air. What she said however was
unexpected. "Well, I'VE seen him."
"You -?"
"I've seen him in a dream."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: found to need a stimulus especially adapted to it. Terror stalked
him when he reflected on his partial failures; nameless things
resulting from imperfect solutions or from bodies insufficiently
fresh. A certain number of these failures had remained alive --
one was in an asylum while others had vanished -- and as he thought
of conceivable yet virtually impossible eventualities he often
shivered beneath his usual stolidity.
West had soon learned
that absolute freshness was the prime requisite for useful specimens,
and had accordingly resorted to frightful and unnatural expedients
in body-snatching. In college, and during our early practice together
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