| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: corpse in eternal blackness? Had the subterranean waters frozen
at last? To what fate had the ocean-bottom cities of the outer
world been delivered? Had any of the Old Ones shifted north ahead
of the creeping ice cap? Existing geology shows no trace of their
presence. Had the frightful Mi-Go been still a menace in the outer
land world of the north? Could one be sure of what might or might
not linger, even to this day, in the lightless and unplumbed abysses
of earth’s deepest waters? Those things had seemingly been able
to withstand any amount of pressure - and men of the sea have
fished up curious objects at times. And has the killer-whale theory
really explained the savage and mysterious scars on antarctic
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Talisman by Walter Scott: While these thoughts passed through his mind, he continued to
assist the Marquis in arming, but it was in silence.
The hour at length arrived; the trumpets sounded; the knights
rode into the lists armed at all points, and mounted like men who
were to do battle for a kingdom's honour. They wore their visors
up, and riding around the lists three times, showed themselves to
the spectators. Both were goodly persons, and both had noble
countenances. But there was an air of manly confidence on the
brow of the Scot--a radiancy of hope, which amounted even to
cheerfulness; while, although pride and effort had recalled much
of Conrade's natural courage, there lowered still on his brow a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Crisis in Russia by Arthur Ransome: to meet immediate dangers, and have accelerated the process
of adaptation made inevitable by their victory.
The process of adaptation has had the natural result of
producing new internal cleavages. Change after change in
their programme and theory of the Russian Trades Unionists
has been due to the pressure of life itself, to the urgency of
struggling against the worsening of conditions already almost
unbearable. It is perfectly natural that those Unions which
hold back from adaptation and resent the changes are
precisely those which, like that of the printers, are not
intimately concerned in any productive process, are
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