| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Edingburgh Picturesque Notes by Robert Louis Stevenson: bench all sheeted up and nothing moving but the sunbeams
on the wall. A little farther and you strike upon a
room, not empty like the rest, but crowded with
PRODUCTIONS from bygone criminal cases: a grim lumber:
lethal weapons, poisoned organs in a jar, a door with a
shot-hole through the panel, behind which a man fell
dead. I cannot fancy why they should preserve them
unless it were against the Judgment Day. At length, as
you continue to descend, you see a peep of yellow
gaslight and hear a jostling, whispering noise ahead;
next moment you turn a corner, and there, in a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pathology of Lying, Etc. by William and Mary Healy: truth of her stories of ill treatment and the like.
Investigators found there was unquestionably some truth in her
statements, but never from first to last in the many interviews
which we had with her was there ever any possibility of
separating truth from falsehood. The girl simply did not seem to
know the difference between the two. What was more, we found
that the mother presented the same characteristics. She also, by
her most curious and complicated fabrications, led even her most
rational sympathizers into a bewildering maze. A woman of
magnificent presence, tremendous will, and good intelligence, she
nevertheless was soon found to be absolutely unreliable in her
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: Against so many gallant gentlemen the southern Covenanters could
but arm raw levies; the Whigamores of the western shires, and the
ploughmen and mechanics of the Low-country. For the West
Highlands, he knew no interest which the Covenanters possessed
there, except that of one individual, as well known as he was
odious. But was there a single man, who, on casting his eye
round this hall, and recognising the power, the gallantry, and
the dignity of the chiefs assembled, could entertain a moment's
doubt of their success against the utmost force which Gillespie
Grumach could collect against them? He had only farther to add,
that considerable funds, both of money and ammunition, had been
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