| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: holding the telescope when the Arkham party detoured radically
from the swath. He told the crowd that the men were evidently
trying to get to a subordinate peak which overlooked the swath
at a point considerably ahead of where the shrubbery was now bending.
This, indeed, proved to be true; and the party were seen to gain
the minor elevation only a short time after the invisible blasphemy
had passed it.
Then Wesley Corey, who had taken the glass, cried
out that Armitage was adjusting the sprayer which Rice held, and
that something must be about to happen. The crowd stirred uneasily,
recalling that his sprayer was expected to give the unseen horror
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: and then said unto him,
"Give ear, thou abyss of error, blacker than the darkness that
may be felt, thou seed of Babylon, child of the building of the
tower of Chalane, whereby the world was confounded, foolish and
pitiable dotard, whose sins out-weigh the iniquity of the five
cities that were destroyed by fire and brimstone. Why wouldest
thou mock at the preaching of salvation, whereby darkness hath
been made light, the wanderers have found the way, they that were
lost in dire captivity have been recalled. Tell me whether is
better? To worship God Almighty, with the only-begotten Son and
the Holy Ghost, God increate and immortal, the beginning and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Collection of Beatrix Potter by Beatrix Potter: to supper, my dear Ribby, to eat
something MOST DELICIOUS."
"I will come very punctually, my
dear Ribby," wrote Duchess; and
then at the end she added--"I hope
it isn't mouse?"
And then she thought that did
not look quite polite; so she scratched
out "isn't mouse" and changed
it to "I hope it will be fine," and
she gave her letter to the postman.
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