| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Lock and Key Library by Julian Hawthorne, Ed.: well as of the extraordinary manner in which they had disappeared;
and I then inquired if he thought they had been addressed to the
woman who had died in the house, and if there were anything in her
early history which could possibly confirm the dark suspicions to
which the letters gave rise. Mr. J---- seemed startled, and, after
musing a few moments, answered, "I am but little acquainted with
the woman's earlier history, except as I before told you, that her
family were known to mine. But you revive some vague reminiscences
to her prejudice. I will make inquiries, and inform you of their
result. Still, even if we could admit the popular superstition
that a person who had been either the perpetrator or the victim of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: -I had walked when I first spied the heap of blocks bared by the
day's wind. It was the largest group in one place that I had seen
so far, and so sharply did it impress me that the visions of fabulous
aeons faded suddenly away.
Again there were only the desert
and the evil moon and the shards of an unguessed past. I drew
close and paused, and cast the added light of my electric torch
over the tumbled pile. A hillock had blown away, leaving a low,
irregularly round mass of megaliths and smaller fragments some
forty feet across and from two to eight feet high.
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Shadow out of Time |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton: "No: I hated it. But what could I do?"
"What could you do?"
"When our being together depended on it? Oh, Nick, how could
you think I'd give you up?"
"Give me up?" he echoed.
"Well--doesn't our being together depend on--on what we can get
out of people? And hasn't there always got to be some give-and-
take? Did you ever in your life get anything for nothing?" she
cried with sudden exasperation. "You've lived among these
people as long as I have; I suppose it's not the first time--"
"By God, but it is," he exclaimed, flushing. "And that's the
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