| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: a short running start, and scrambled to the top of the
barrier. Fearing lest the apes should rend their
garments to shreds in a similar attempt, he had
directed them to wait below for him, and himself
securely perched upon the summit of the palisade he
unslung his spear and lowered one end of it to Chulk.
The ape seized it, and while Tarzan held tightly to the
upper end, the anthropoid climbed quickly up the shaft
until with one paw he grasped the top of the wall.
To scramble then to Tarzan's side was the work of but an
instant. In like manner Taglat was conducted to their
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Alkahest by Honore de Balzac: all day. But--unexpected shock!--Madame Claes learned through the
humiliating medium of some women friends, who showed surprise at her
ignorance, that her husband constantly imported instruments of
physical science, valuable materials, books, machinery, etc., from
Paris, and was on the highroad to ruin in search of the Philosopher's
Stone. She ought, so her kind friends added, to think of her children,
and her own future; it was criminal not to use her influence to draw
Monsieur Claes from the fatal path on which he had entered.
Though Madame Claes, with the tone and manner of a great lady,
silenced these absurd speeches, she was inwardly terrified in spite of
her apparent confidence, and she resolved to break through her present
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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: or oversights, and against some hidden plan or wish of the gods.
At length, sick with longing for those glittering sunset streets
and cryptical hill lanes among ancient tiled roofs, nor able sleeping
or waking to drive them from his mind, Carter resolved to go with
bold entreaty whither no man had gone before, and dare the icy
deserts through the dark to where unknown Kadath, veiled in cloud
and crowned with unimagined stars, holds secret and nocturnal
the onyx castle of the Great Ones.
In light slumber he descended
the seventy steps to the cavern of flame and talked of this design
to the bearded priests Nasht and Kaman-Thah. And the priests shook
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath |
