| 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: from their tasks to stare seaward and cluster round the waterfront.
Betwixt the grey headlands a fresh black galley was rapidly advancing,
and it would be but a moment before the almost-humans on deck
would perceive the invasion of the town and give the alarm to
the monstrous things below. Fortunately the ghouls still bore
the spears and javelins which Carter had distributed amongst them;
and at his command, sustained by the being that was Pickman, they
now formed a line of battle and prepared to prevent the landing
of the ship. Presently a burst of excitement on the galley told
of the crew's discovery of the changed state of things, and the
instant stoppage of the vessel proved that the superior numbers
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from In a German Pension by Katherine Mansfield: "It's settle--or it's go!" The landlady raised her voice; she began to
bawl. "I'm a landlady, I am, and a respectable woman, I'll have you know.
I'll have no lice in my house, sneaking their way into the furniture and
eating up everything. It's cash--or out you go before twelve o'clock to-
morrow."
Viola felt rather than saw the woman's gesture. She shot out her arm in a
stupid helpless way, as though a dirty pigeon had suddenly flown at her
face. "Filthy old beast! Ugh! And the smell of her--like stale cheese
and damp washing."
"Very well!" she answered shortly; "it's cash down or I leave to-morrow.
All right: don't shout."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Of The Nature of Things by Lucretius: Affixed to earth. And when in ripened time
The age of the young within (that sought the air
And fled earth's damps) had burst these wombs, O then
Would Nature thither turn the pores of earth
And make her spurt from open veins a juice
Like unto milk; even as a woman now
Is filled, at child-bearing, with the sweet milk,
Because all that swift stream of aliment
Is thither turned unto the mother-breasts.
There earth would furnish to the children food;
Warmth was their swaddling cloth, the grass their bed
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