| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Case of the Golden Bullet by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: Johann had laid the pistol down again. Muller stretched forth his
hand and took it up. He looked at it a moment, then handed it to
the commissioner. "We have to do with a murder here. There was
not a shot fired from this revolver, for every chamber is still
loaded. And there is no other weapon in sight," said the detective
quietly.
"Yes, he was murdered. This revolver is fully loaded. Let us
begin the search at once." Horn was more excited than he cared to
show.
Johann looked about in alarm, but when he saw the others beginning
to peer into every corner and every cupboard, he himself joined in
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Royalty Restored/London Under Charles II by J. Fitzgerald Molloy: society.
In their absence the poet spent solitary hours conning over as
many lines of the great poem as his memory could store, until one
of his friends arrived, and relieved him by taking the staazas
down. Frequently his nephew, Edward Philips, performed this task
for him. To him Milton was in the habit of showing his work as
it advanced, and Philips states he found it frequently required
correction in orthography and punctuation, by reason of the
various hands which had written it. As summer advanced, he was
no longer favoured by a sight of the poem; inquiring the reason
of which, Milton told him "his vein never happily flowed but from
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: I acquired the habit of taking long, lone walks in the desert
late at night-usually to the north or northeast, whither the sum
of my strange new impulses seemed subtly to pull me.
Sometimes,
on these walks, I would stumble over nearly buried fragments of
the ancient masonry. Though there were fewer visible blocks here
than where we had started, I felt sure that there must be a vast
abundance beneath the surface. The ground was less level than
at our camp, and the prevailing high winds now and then piled
the sand into fantastic temporary hillocks - exposing low traces
of the elder stones while it covered other traces.
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