| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe: waters of the tarn.
Noticing these things, I rode over a short causeway to the
house. A servant in waiting took my horse, and I entered the
Gothic archway of the hall. A valet, of stealthy step, thence
conducted me, in silence, through many dark and intricate
passages in my progress to the studio of his master. Much
that I encountered on the way contributed, I know not how, to
heighten the vague sentiments of which I have already spoken.
While the objects around me--while the carvings of the ceilings,
the sombre tapestries of the walls, the ebon blackness of the
floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies which rattled as
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: about two feet tall, one foot wide, and one foot thick. The central
mirror was circular and convex. All this is borne out by such
makers of parts as can be located.
On the evening of Friday,
26 September, I dismissed the housekeeper and the maid until noon
of the next day. Lights burned in the house till late, and a lean,
dark, curiously foreign-looking man called in an automobile.
It
was about one A.M. that the lights were last seen. At 2.15 A.M.
a policeman observed the place in darkness, but the strager's
motor still at the curb. By 4 o'clock the motor was certainly
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H. B. Irving: deliberation. They found the prisoner "Not Guilty" of the murder
of Hippolyte Ballet, "Guilty" of destroying his will, and
"Guilty" by seven votes to five of the murder of Auguste Ballet.
Asked if he had anything to say before judgment was given,
Castaing, in a very loud voice, said "No; but I shall know how to
die, though I am the victim of ill-fortune, of fatal circum-
stance. I shall go to meet my two friends. I am accused of
having treacherously murdered them. There is a Providence above
us! If there is such a thing as an immortal soul, I shall see
Hippolyte and Auguste Ballet again. This is no empty
declamation; I don't ask for human pity" (raising his hands to
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