| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The White Moll by Frank L. Packard: with Danglar in Shluker's room; and the Cricket, whom she had never
seen; and besides these, there were those who were mentioned in the
cipher message to-night, and detailed to the performance of the
various acts and scenes that were to lead up to the final climax
- which, she supposed, was the object and reason for the cipher
message, in order that even those not actually employed might be
thoroughly conversant with the entire plan, and ready to act
intelligently if called upon. For there were others, of course, as
witness herself, or, rather, Gypsy Nan, whose personality she had
so unwillingly usurped.
It was vital, necessary, that she should know them all, and more
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: the sail and its results. He had not been able to under-
stand exactly what I hoped to accomplish with it while
we were fitting up the boat; but when he saw the
clumsy dugout move steadily through the water with-
out paddles, he was as delighted as a child. We made
splendid headway on the trip, coming into sight of
land at last.
Juag had been terror-stricken when he had learned
that I intended crossing the ocean, and when we passed
out of sight of land be was in a blue funk. He said that
he had never heard of such a thing before in his life,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: Whether or not this could be the fabled waste wherein unknown
Kadath stands he did not know; but it seemed unlikely that those
presences and sentinels, if indeed they existed, were stationed
for nought.
On the following day Carter walked up the Street
of the Pillars to the turquoise temple and talked with the High-Priest.
Though Nath-Horthath is chiefly worshipped in Celephais, all the
Great Ones are mentioned in diurnal prayers; and the priest was
reasonably versed in their moods. Like Atal in distant Ulthar,
he strongly advised against any attempts to see them; declaring
that they are testy and capricious, and subject to strange protection
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