| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville: thus anon hath he hasty tidings of anything that beareth charge, by
his couriers, that run so hastily throughout all the country. And
also when the Emperor sendeth his couriers hastily throughout his
land, every one of them hath a large throng full of small bells,
and when they neigh near to the inns of other couriers that be also
ordained by the journeys, they ring their bells, and anon the other
couriers make them ready, and run their way unto another inn. And
thus runneth one to other, full speedily and swiftly, till the
emperor's intent be served, in all haste. And these couriers be
clept CHYDYDO, after their language, that is to say, a messenger,
Also when the emperor goeth from one country to another, as I have
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: of the night-gaunts were not flapping any more. The horned and
faceless steeds had folded their membranous appendages, and were
resting quite passive in the chaos of wind that whirled and chuckled
as it bore them on. A force not of earth had seized on the army,
and ghouls and night-gaunts alike were powerless before a current
which pulled madly and relentlessly into the north whence no mortal
had ever returned. At length a lone pallid light was seen on the
skyline ahead, thereafter rising steadily as they approached,
and having beneath it a black mass that blotted out the stars.
Carter saw that it must be some beacon on a mountain, for only
a mountain could rise so vast as seen from so prodigious a height
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Dream Life and Real Life by Olive Schreiner: "They can never find me here," she said; and she knelt, and listened to
every word they said. She could hear it all.
"You may have all the money," said the Bushman; "but I want the cask of
brandy. I will set the roof alight in six places, for a Dutchman burnt my
mother once alive in a hut, with three children."
"You are sure there is no one else on the farm?" said the navvy.
"No, I have told you till I am tired," said Dirk; "The two Kaffirs have
gone with the son to town; and the maids have gone to a dance; there is
only the old man and the two women left."
"But suppose," said the navvy, "he should have the gun at his bedside, and
loaded!"
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