| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Before Adam by Jack London: wolves, and all the hungry, meat-eating breeds.
CHAPTER XV
Lop-Ear got married. It was the second winter after
our adventure-journey, and it was most unexpected. He
gave me no warning. The first I knew was one twilight
when I climbed the cliff to our cave. I squeezed into
the entrance and there I stopped. There was no room
for me. Lop-Ear and his mate were in possession, and
she was none other than my sister, the daughter of my
step-father, the Chatterer.
I tried to force my way in. There was space only for
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Burning Daylight by Jack London: kind of lean toward me with a willing expression in your eye, and
then I'll blush maybe some, being a young fellow, and put my arm
around you, like that, and then--why, then I'll up and marry my
brother's widow, and go out and do the chores while she's cooking
a bite to eat."
"But you haven't answered my questions," she reproached him, as
she emerged, rosy and radiant, from the embrace that had
accompanied the culmination of his narrative.
"Now just what do you want to know?" he asked.
"I want to know how all this is possible? How you are able to
leave your business at a time like this? What you meant by
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: howling arose from that jagged granite place, the traveller was
glad that no stop had been made, and that the rock had no name.
The seamen prayed and chanted till the noise was out of earshot,
and Carter dreamed terrible dreams within dreams in the small
hours.
Two mornings after that there loomed far ahead and to
the east a line of great grey peaks whose tops were lost in the
changeless clouds of that twilight world. And at the sight of
them the sailors sang glad songs, and some knelt down on the deck
to pray, so that Carter knew they were come to the land of Inquanok
and would soon be moored to the basalt quays of the great town
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