| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mucker by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Bony Sawyer, another to Red Sanders and a third to a man
by the name of Wison.
"Now, my men," said Skipper Simms, "we will go below
and bring Byrne up. Bring him alive if you can--but bring
him."
No one made a move to enter the forecastle.
"Go on now, move quickly," commanded Skipper Simms
sharply.
"Thought he said 'we'," remarked one of the sailors.
Skipper Simms, livid with rage, turned to search out the
offender from the several men behind him.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Lesson of the Master by Henry James: passed between them. His next words, however, showed he hadn't,
and they produced, as an appeal to Paul's own memory, an effect
which would have been ludicrous if it hadn't been cruel. "Do you
recall the talk we had at my house that night, into which Miss
Fancourt's name entered? I've often thought of it since."
"Yes; no wonder you said what you did" - Paul was careful to meet
his eyes.
"In the light of the present occasion? Ah but there was no light
then. How could I have foreseen this hour?"
"Didn't you think it probable?"
"Upon my honour, no," said Henry St. George. "Certainly I owe you
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: central Temple of the Elder Ones with its sixteen carven sides,
its flattened dome, and its lofty pinnacled belfry, overtopping
all else, and majestic whatever its foreground. And always to
the east, far beyond the city walls and the leagues of pasture
land, rose the gaunt grey sides of those topless and impassable
peaks across which hideous Leng was said to lie.
The captain
took Carter to the mighty temple, which is set with its walled
garden in a great round plaza whence the streets go as spokes
from a wheel's hub. The seven arched gates of that garden, each
having over it a carven face like those on the city's gates, are
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