| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Phoenix and the Turtle by William Shakespeare: Co-supreme and stars of love;
As chorus to their tragic scene.
THRENOS.
Beauty, truth, and rarity.
Grace in all simplicity,
Here enclos'd in cinders lie.
Death is now the phoenix' nest;
And the turtle's loyal breast
To eternity doth rest,
Leaving no posterity:--
'Twas not their infirmity,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft: made man and the world seem recent and transient indeed. There
had been aeons when other Things ruled on the earth, and They
had had great cities. Remains of Them, he said the deathless Chinamen
had told him, were still be found as Cyclopean stones on islands
in the Pacific. They all died vast epochs of time before men came,
but there were arts which could revive Them when the stars had
come round again to the right positions in the cycle of eternity.
They had, indeed, come themselves from the stars, and brought
Their images with Them.
These Great Old Ones, Castro continued,
were not composed altogether of flesh and blood. They had shape
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley: Chapter 6
Clerval then put the following letter into my hands. It was from
my own Elizabeth:
"My dearest Cousin,
"You have been ill, very ill, and even the constant letters of
dear kind Henry are not sufficient to reassure me on your account.
You are forbidden to write--to hold a pen; yet one word from you,
dear Victor, is necessary to calm our apprehensions. For a long time
I have thought that each post would bring this line, and my persuasions
have restrained my uncle from undertaking a journey to Ingolstadt.
I have prevented his encountering the inconveniences and perhaps dangers
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