| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: tew? No? Wal, Mis' Corey, ef they was on the glen rud this side
o' the glen, an' ain't got to your haouse yet, I calc'late they
must go into the glen itself. They would do that. I allus says
Col' Spring Glen ain't no healthy nor decent place. The whippoorwills
an' fireflies there never did act like they was creaters o' Gawd,
an' they's them as says ye kin hear strange things a-rushin' an'
a-talkin' in the air dawon thar ef ye stand in the right place,
atween the rock falls an' Bear's Den.'
By that noon fully three-quarters
of the men and boys of Dunwich were trooping over the roads and
meadows between the newmade Whateley ruins and Cold Spring Glen,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom by William and Ellen Craft: self, and for fear that Mr. Cray might draw him
into conversation and recognise his voice, my
master resolved to feign deafness as the only means
of self-defence.
After a little while, Mr. Cray said to my master,
"It is a very fine morning, sir." The latter took
no notice, but kept looking out of the window.
Mr. Cray soon repeated this remark, in a little
louder tone, but my master remained as before.
This indifference attracted the attention of the
passengers near, one of whom laughed out. This,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Myths and Myth-Makers by John Fiske: race, appears in Italy as a purely local legend, and is
narrated as such by Virgil, in the eighth book of the AEneid;
by Livy, at the beginning of his history; and by Propertius
and Ovid. Hercules, journeying through Italy after his victory
over Geryon, stops to rest by the bank of the Tiber. While he
is taking his repose, the three-headed monster Cacus, a son of
Vulcan and a formidable brigand, comes and steals his cattle,
and drags them tail-foremost to a secret cavern in the rocks.
But the lowing of the cows arouses Hercules, and he runs
toward the cavern where the robber, already frightened, has
taken refuge. Armed with a huge flinty rock, he breaks open
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