| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: skin. It was not quite dead, but twitched silently and spasmodically
while its chest heaved in monstrous unison with the mad piping
of the expectant whippoorwills outside. Bits of shoe-leather and
fragments of apparel were scattered about the room, and just inside
the window an empty canvas sack lay where it had evidently been
thrown. Near the central desk a revolver had fallen, a dented
but undischarged cartridge later explaining why it had not been
fired. The thing itself, however, crowded out all other images
at the time. It would be trite and not wholly accurate to say
that no human pen could describe it, but one may properly say
that it could not be vividly visualized by anyone whose ideas
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Pocket Diary Found in the Snow by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: find the stand of the cab we are looking for. The man who hired it
evidently arrived on the 6:30 train at the West Station - I have
reason to believe that he does not live here, - and then took the
street car to this corner. The last ticket is marked for yesterday.
In the car he probably made his plans to hire a cab. So you had
better stay along the line of the car tracks. You will find me in
room seven, Police Headquarters, at noon to-day. The authorities
have already taken up the case. You may have something to tell us
then. Good luck to you."
Muller hurried on, after he had taken a quick breakfast in a little
caf‚. He went at once to headquarters, made his report there and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum: 127 Line-Art Drawing
"I hope you are enjoying good health?" continued the Woodman.
"At present, yes;" replied the Pumpkinhead, with a sigh; "but I am in
constant terror of the day when I shall spoil."
"Nonsense!" said the Emperor -- but in a kindly, sympathetic tone. "Do not,
I beg of you, dampen today's sun with the showers of tomorrow. For before
your head has time to spoil you can have it canned, and in that way it may
be preserved indefinitely."
Tip, during this conversation, was looking at the Woodman with undisguised
amazement, and noticed that the celebrated Emperor of the Winkies was
composed entirely of pieces of tin, neatly soldered
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