| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft: savoured of the wildest dreams of myth-maker and theosophist,
and disclosed an astonishing degree of cosmic imagination among
such half-castes and pariahs as might be least expected to possess
it.
On November 1st, 1907, there had come to the New Orleans
police a frantic summons from the swamp and lagoon country to
the south. The squatters there, mostly primitive but good-natured
descendants of Lafitte's men, were in the grip of stark terror
from an unknown thing which had stolen upon them in the night.
It was voodoo, apparently, but voodoo of a more terrible sort
than they had ever known; and some of their women and children
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from I Have A Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr.: go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our
northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will
be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties
and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. It is a
dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out
the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be
self-evident: that all men are created equal."
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons
of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from One Basket by Edna Ferber: dare to say `Good morning!' to the Devine woman. Anyway, a
person wouldn't talk to her, I suppose. But I kind of thought
I'd tell you about her.
"Thanks!" said the Very Young Husband dryly.
In the early spring, before Blanche Devine moved in, there came
stone- masons, who began to build something. It was a great
stone fireplace that rose in massive incongruity at the side of
the little white cottage. Blanche Devine was trying to make a
home for herself.
Blanche Devine used to come and watch them now and then as the
work progressed. She had a way of walking round and round the
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