| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: need only to turn back to the thoughts and visions of your wistful
boyhood.
"Look! through that window shine the stars of eternal
night. Even now they are shining above the scenes you have known
and cherished, drinking of their charm that they may shine more
lovely over the gardens of dream. There is Antares-he is winking
at this moment over the roofs of Tremont Street, and you could
see him from your window on Beacon Hill. Out beyond those stars
yawn the gulfs from whence my mindless masters have sent me. Some
day you too may traverse them, but if you are wise you will beware
such folly; for of those mortals who have been and returned, only
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley: matters of that kind; but that is a child's fancy, my dear.
Nothing is to be depended on but the great hippopotamus test. If
you have a hippopotamus major in your brain, you are no ape, though
you had four hands, no feet, and were more apish than the apes of
all aperies. But if a hippopotamus major is ever discovered in one
single ape's brain, nothing will save your great-great-great-great-
great-great-great-great-great-great-great-greater-greatest-
grandmother from having been an ape too. No, my dear little man;
always remember that the one true, certain, final, and all-
important difference between you and an ape is, that you have a
hippopotamus major in your brain, and it has none; and that,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The First Men In The Moon by H. G. Wells: us, so close and vehement that the tops of the bayonet scrub bent before
it, and one felt the breath of it hot and moist. And, turning about, we
saw indistinctly through a crowd of swaying stems the mooncalf's shining
sides, and the long line of its back loomed out against the sky.
Of course it is hard for me now to say how much I saw at that time,
because my impressions were corrected by subsequent observation. First of
all impressions was its enormous size; the girth of its body was some
fourscore feet, its length perhaps two hundred. Its sides rose and fell
with its laboured breathing. I perceived that its gigantic, flabby body
lay along the ground, and that its skin was of a corrugated white,
dappling into blackness along the backbone. But of its feet we saw
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