| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: of 1908-13, and, considerably later, the inexplicable loathing
of my own person.
As certain definite details began to enter
the dreams, their horror increased a thousandfold - until by October,
1915, I felt I must do something. It was then that I began an
intensive study of other cases of amnesia and visions, feeling
that I might thereby obectivise my trouble and shake clear of
its emotional grip.
However, as before mentioned, the result
was at first almost exactly opposite. It disturbed me vastly to
find that my dreams had been so closely duplicated; especially
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tales and Fantasies by Robert Louis Stevenson: springless, and stamped by an abiding sorrow.
'Oh Dick, Dick!' she said, and the tears began to shine upon
her face as she hid it in his bosom; his own fell thickly
too. They had a sad walk home, and that night, full of love
and good counsel, Dick exerted every art to please his
father, to convince him of his respect and affection, to heal
up this breach of kindness, and reunite two hearts. But
alas! the Squire was sick and peevish; he had been all day
glooming over Dick's estrangement - for so he put it to
himself, and now with growls, cold words, and the cold
shoulder, he beat off all advances, and entrenched himself in
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: and . . ."
[14] Cf. "Mem." II. ii. 13. Holden cf. Soph. "Ajax." 567; Eur.
"Suppl." 918.
[15] Or reading {epenegke} with Cobet, "brought with you in the way of
dowry."
[16] Or, "to the joint estate."
Thus I addressed her, Socrates, and thus my wife made answer: "But how
can I assist you? what is my ability? Nay, everything depends on you.
My business, my mother told me, was to be sober-minded!"[17]
[17] "Modest and temperate," and (below) "temperance."
"Most true, my wife," I replied, "and that is what my father said to
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