| 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: suffered much from a morbid acuteness of the senses; the most
insipid food was alone endurable; he could wear only garments of
certain texture; the odours of all flowers were oppressive; his
eyes were tortured by even a faint light; and there were but
peculiar sounds, and these from stringed instruments, which did
not inspire him with horror.
To an anomalous species of terror I found him a bounden
slave. "I shall perish," said he, "I must perish in this
deplorable folly. Thus, thus, and not otherwise, shall I be
lost. I dread the events of the future, not in themselves, but
in their results. I shudder at the thought of any, even the most
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Reason Discourse by Rene Descartes: ligature above the opening very tight. For it is manifest that the tie,
moderately straightened, while adequate to hinder the blood already in the
arm from returning towards the heart by the veins, cannot on that account
prevent new blood from coming forward through the arteries, because these
are situated below the veins, and their coverings, from their greater
consistency, are more difficult to compress; and also that the blood which
comes from the heart tends to pass through them to the hand with greater
force than it does to return from the hand to the heart through the veins.
And since the latter current escapes from the arm by the opening made in
one of the veins, there must of necessity be certain passages below the
ligature, that is, towards the extremities of the arm through which it can
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom by William and Ellen Craft: and as she had taken what I felt to be an important
view of her condition, I did not, at first, press
the marriage, but agreed to assist her in trying to
devise some plan by which we might escape from
our unhappy condition, and then be married.
We thought of plan after plan, but they all
seemed crowded with insurmountable difficulties.
We knew it was unlawful for any public convey-
ance to take us as passengers, without our master's
consent. We were also perfectly aware of the
startling fact, that had we left without this consent
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