| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Fantastic Fables by Ambrose Bierce: he read the placard, he was about to speak, when the shopkeeper
called to a salesman:
"John, show this gentleman the world."
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A HEAVY Operator overtaken by a Reverse of Fortune was bewailing
his sudden fall from affluence to indigence.
"Do not weep," said the Reverse of Fortune. "You need not suffer
alone. Name any one of the men who have opposed your schemes, and
I will overtake HIM."
"It is hardly worth while," said the victim, earnestly. "Not a
soul of them has a cent!"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Arizona Nights by Stewart Edward White: subject.
Senor Johnson, with a curiously instant transformation often to
be observed among the adventurous, settled luxuriously into the
state of being a married man. Its smallest details gave him
distinct and separate sensations of pleasure.
"I plumb likes it all," he said. "I likes havin' interest in some
fool geranium plant, and I likes worryin' about the screen doors
and all the rest of the plumb foolishness. It does me good. It
feels like stretchin' your legs in front of a good warm fire."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft: ignorant as they were, the creatures held with surprising consistency
to the central idea of their loathsome faith.
They worshipped,
so they said, the Great Old Ones who lived ages before there were
any men, and who came to the young world out of the sky. Those
Old Ones were gone now, inside the earth and under the sea; but
their dead bodies had told their secrets in dreams to the first
men, who formed a cult which had never died. This was that cult,
and the prisoners said it had always existed and always would
exist, hidden in distant wastes and dark places all over the world
until the time when the great priest Cthulhu, from his dark house
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