| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Master of the World by Jules Verne: would be not so sore a joke to me.
Mr. Ward again took up our conversation. "We are resolved by some
means to establish communication with this inventor. He has
disappeared, it is true; but he may reappear at any moment, and in
any part of the country. I have chosen you, Strock, to follow him the
instant he appears. You must hold yourself ready to leave Washington
on the moment. Do not quit your house, except to come here to
headquarters each day; notify me, each time by telephone, when you
start from home, and report to me personally the moment you arrive
here."
"I will follow orders exactly, Mr. Ward," I answered. "But permit me
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne: It was eight o'clock when the train passed through the defiles
of the Humboldt Range, and half-past nine when it penetrated Utah,
the region of the Great Salt Lake, the singular colony of the Mormons.
Chapter XXVII
IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT UNDERGOES, AT A SPEED OF TWENTY MILES AN HOUR,
A COURSE OF MORMON HISTORY
During the night of the 5th of December, the train ran south-easterly
for about fifty miles; then rose an equal distance in a north-easterly
direction, towards the Great Salt Lake.
Passepartout, about nine o'clock, went out upon the platform to take the air.
The weather was cold, the heavens grey, but it was not snowing.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: the posthuman beetle race it would be quite dead. And yet, as
I thought of the native legends, I trembled anew.
It cost me
a terrible effort to vault that yawning chasm, since the littered
floor prevented a running start - but madness drove me on. I chose
a place close to the left-hand wall - where the rift was least
wide and the landing-spot reasonably clear of dangerous debris
- and after one frantic moment reached the other side in safety.
At last, gaining the lower level, I stumbled on past the archway
of the room of machines, within which were fantastic ruins of
metal, half buried beneath fallen vaulting. Everything was where
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