| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: From the air of hushed fright at Osborn's store they knew something
hideous had happened, and soon learned of the annihilation of
the Elmer Frye house and family. Throughout that afternoon they
rode around Dunwich, questioning the natives concerning all that
had occurred, and seeing for themselves with rising pangs of horror
the drear Frye ruins with their lingering traces of the tarry
stickiness, the blasphemous tracks in the Frye yard, the wounded
Seth Bishop cattle, and the enormous swaths of disturbed vegetation
in various places. The trail up and down Sentinel Hill seemed
to Armitage of almost cataclysmic significance, and he looked
long at the sinister altar-like stone on the summit.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Hellenica by Xenophon: their respective states, and, when they had brought these to a
sufficient pitch of hatred, bound together the most important of them
in a confederacy.
[1] = 12,187 pounds: 10 shillings.
[2] See Paus. III. ix. 8; Plut. "Ages." xv.
[3] Reading {nomizontes auton to arkhein} with Sauppe; or if, as
Breitinbach suggests, {enomizon de oukh outon to arkhesthai},
translate "but thought it was not for them to take the
initiative."
But it was clear to the leaders in Thebes that, unless some one struck
the first blow, the Lacedaemonians would never be brought to break the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from To-morrow by Joseph Conrad: tenance, and when he left her to make his purchases
his bearing changed as soon as he got into the
street. Away from the sanction of her pity, he felt
himself exposed without defence. He brushed the
walls with his shoulder. He mistrusted the queer-
ness of the people; yet, by then, even the town
children had left off calling after him, and the
tradesmen served him without a word. The slight-
est allusion to his clothing had the power to puzzle
and frighten especially, as if it were something
utterly unwarranted and incomprehensible.
To-morrow |
