| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini: so. It would be beyond my power positively to deny it. Revolution
followed and bloodshed. More may yet come. To repent implies a
recognition that I have done wrong. How shall I say that I have
done wrong, and thus take a share of the responsibility for all
that blood upon my soul? I will be quite frank with you to show
you how far, indeed, I am from repentance. What I did, I actually
did against all my convictions at the time. Because there was no
justice in France to move against the murderer of Philippe de
Vilmorin, I moved in the only way that I imagined could make the
evil done recoil upon the hand that did it, and those other hands
that had the power but not the spirit to punish. Since then I
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: grew, I began to develop a gnawing fear. I did not like the way
he looked at healthy living bodies; and then there came a nightmarish
session in the cellar laboratory when I learned that a certain
specimen had been a living body when he secured it. That was the
first time he had ever been able to revive the quality of rational
thought in a corpse; and his success, obtained at such a loathsome
cost, had completely hardened him.
Of his methods in the intervening
five years I dare not speak. I was held to him by sheer force
of fear, and witnessed sights that no human tongue could repeat.
Gradually I came to find Herbert West himself more horrible than
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tao Teh King by Lao-tze: from his baggage waggons. Although he may have brilliant prospects to
look at, he quietly remains (in his proper place), indifferent to
them. How should the lord of a myriad chariots carry himself lightly
before the kingdom? If he do act lightly, he has lost his root (of
gravity); if he proceed to active movement, he will lose his throne.
27. 1. The skilful traveller leaves no traces of his wheels or
footsteps; the skilful speaker says nothing that can be found fault
with or blamed; the skilful reckoner uses no tallies; the skilful
closer needs no bolts or bars, while to open what he has shut will be
impossible; the skilful binder uses no strings or knots, while to
unloose what he has bound will be impossible. In the same way the
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