| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Commission in Lunacy by Honore de Balzac: Guard. But, alas! at the death of my old man, who was drowned, times
changed for the worse. I had the smallpox. I was kept two years in my
room without stirring, and I came out of it the size you see me,
hideous for ever, and as wretched as could be. These are my seductive
arts."
"But what, then, can the reasons be that have induced M. d'Espard to
give you sums----"
"Hugious sums, monsieur, say the word; I do not mind. But as to his
reasons, I am not at liberty to explain them."
"You are wrong. At this moment, his family, very naturally alarmed,
are about to bring an action----"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: high impassable mountains towered on the side where Leng was thought
to lie, so that none might say whether this evil plateau with
its horrible stone villages and unmentionable monastery were really
there, or whether the rumour were only a fear that timid people
felt in the night when those formidable barrier peaks loomed black
against a rising moon. Certainly, men reached Leng from very different
oceans. Of other boundaries of Inquanok those sailors had no notion,
nor had they heard of the cold waste and unknown Kadath save from
vague unplaced report. And of the marvellous sunset city which
Carter sought they knew nothing at all. So the traveller asked
no more of far things, but bided his time till he might talk with
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Juana by Honore de Balzac: while Tarragona is in the forty-first. The old question of climates is
still useful to narrators to explain the sudden denouements, the
imprudences, or the resistances of love.
Montefiore kept his eyes fixed on the exquisite black profile
projected by the gleam upon the wall. Neither he nor Juana could see
each other; a troublesome cornice, vexatiously placed, deprived them
of the mute correspondence which may be established between a pair of
lovers as they bend to each other from their windows. Thus the mind
and the attention of the captain were concentrated on that luminous
circle where, without perhaps knowing it herself, the young girl
would, he thought, innocently reveal her thoughts by a series of
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