| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis: wasn't quite sure what he had been talking about,
and he wanted to see how much I had hearn. I
thinks to myself it must be a awful funny kind of
hunt he is on, if he only hunts when he is in that
fix. But I acted real innocent and like my feelings
was hurt, and he believed me. Purty soon he says,
cheerful like:
"There was a girl talking to you to-day, Danny."
"Mebby they was," I says, "and mebby they
wasn't." But I felt my face getting red all the
same, and was mad because it did. He grinned
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Juana by Honore de Balzac: orderly officer to aide-de-camp on the staff of some easy-going
marshal. By that time, he reflected, he should come into his property
of a hundred thousand scudi a year, some journal would speak of him as
"the brave Montefiore," he would marry a girl of rank, and no one
would dare to dispute his courage or verify his wounds.
Captain Montefiore had one friend in the person of the quartermaster,
--a Provencal, born in the neighborhood of Nice, whose name was Diard.
A friend, whether at the galleys or in the garret of an artist,
consoles for many troubles. Now Montefiore and Diard were two
philosophers, who consoled each other for their present lives by the
study of vice, as artists soothe the immediate disappointment of their
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: was the most sacred spot of all, where reputedly the first Old
Ones had settled on a primal sea bottom. In the new city - many
of whose features we could recognize in the sculptures, but which
stretched fully a hundred miles along the mountain range in each
direction beyond the farthest limits of our aerial survey - there
were reputed to be preserved certain sacred stones forming part
of the first sea-bottom city, which thrust up to light after long
epochs in the course of the general crumbling of strata.
VIII
Naturally,
Danforth and I studied with especial interest and a peculiarly
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