| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from I Have A Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr.: extra (C) Copyright notice as was then required in the US. The
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I have a Dream
by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington
D.C. on August 28, 1963
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow
we stand signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous
decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro
slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Historical Lecturers and Essays by Charles Kingsley: must have been enormous. If the vitality of the race had not been
even more enormous, they must have destroyed each other, as the Red
Indians have done, off the face of the earth. They lived these
Norsemen, not to live--they lived to die. For what cared they?
Death--what was death to them? what it was to the Jomsburger Viking,
who, when led out to execution, said to the headsman: "Die! with
all pleasure. We used to question in Jomsburg whether a man felt
when his head was off? Now I shall know; but if I do, take care,
for I shall smite thee with my knife. And meanwhile, spoil not this
long hair of mine; it is so beautiful."
But, oh! what waste! What might not these men have done if they had
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: very clearly, the blasphemous city of the mirage in stark, objective,
and ineluctable reality. That damnable portent had had a material
basis after all - there had been some horizontal stratum of ice
dust in the upper air, and this shocking stone survival had projected
its image across the mountains according to the simple laws of
reflection, Of course, the phantom had been twisted and exaggerated,
and had contained things which the real source did not contain;
yet now, as we saw that real source, we thought it even more hideous
and menacing than its distant image.
Only the incredible, unhuman
massiveness of these vast stone towers and ramparts had saved
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