| 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: Each day the sun wheeled
lower and lower in the sky, and the mists overhead grew thicker
and thicker. And in two weeks there was not any sunlight at all,
but only a weird grey twilight shining through a dome of eternal
cloud by day, and a cold starless phosphorescence from the under
side of that cloud by night. On the twentieth day a great jagged
rock in the sea was sighted from afar, the first land glimpsed
since Man's snowy peak had dwindled behind the ship. Carter asked
the captain the name of that rock, but was told that it had no
name and had never been sought by any vessel because of the sounds
that came from it at night. And when, after dark, a dull and ceaseless
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum: and even dropping his precious cat in his fear.
For a moment Claus stood motionless, being puzzled and astonished.
Then he threw Shiegra's image into the cupboard and ran after the
children, calling to them not to be frightened.
Little Mayrie stopped in her flight and her brother clung to her
skirt; but they both cast fearful glances at the house until Claus had
assured them many times that the beast had been locked in the cupboard.
"Yet why were you frightened at seeing it?" he asked. "It is only a
toy to play with!"
"It's bad!" said Mayrie, decidedly, "an'--an'--just horrid, an' not a
bit nice, like tats!"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry: all who give gifts these two were the wisest. O all who give
and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they
are wisest. They are the magi.
End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of THE GIFT OF THE MAGI.
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