| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: previous walks this circumstance gave no one alarm. And yet, as
many as three men - all Australians - seemed to feel something
sinister in the air.
Mackenzie explained to Professor Freeborn
that this was a fear picked up from blackfellow folklore - the
natives having woven a curious fabric of malignant myth about
the high winds which at long intervals sweep across the sands
under a clear sky. Such winds, it is whispered, blow out of the
great stone huts under the ground, where terrible things have
happened - and are never felt except near places where the big
marked stones are scattered. Close to four the gale subsided as
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Facino Cane by Honore de Balzac: capered among the gold, till I threatened to strangle him if he made a
sound or wasted time. In his joy he did not notice at first the table
where the diamonds lay. I flung myself upon these, and deftly filled
the pockets of my sailor jacket and trousers with the stones. Ah!
Heaven, I did not take the third of them. Gold ingots lay underneath
the table. I persuaded my companion to fill as many bags as we could
carry with the gold, and made him understand that this was our only
chance of escaping detection abroad.
" 'Pearls, rubies, and diamonds might be recognized,' I told him.
"Covetous though we were, we could not possibly take more than two
thousand livres weight of gold, which meant six journeys across the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas: But there were two things which Boxtel did not calculate
upon: --
Rosa, that is to say, love;
William of Orange, that is to say, clemency.
But for Rosa and William, the calculations of the envious
neighbour would have been correct.
But for William, Cornelius would have died.
But for Rosa, Cornelius would have died with his bulbs on
his heart.
Mynheer Boxtel went to the headsman, to whom he gave himself
out as a great friend of the condemned man; and from whom he
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