The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: groups came and went where the fiendish thing had occurred. Two
titan swaths of destruction stretched from the glen to the Frye
farmyard, monstrous prints covered the bare patches of ground,
and one side of the old red barn had completely caved in. Of the
cattle, only a quarter could be found and identified. Some of
these were in curious fragments, and all that survived had to
be shot. Earl Sawyer suggested that help be asked from Aylesbury
or Arkham, but others maintained it would be of no use. Old Zebulon
Whateley, of a branch that hovered about halfway between soundness
and decadence, made darkly wild suggestions about rites that ought
to be practiced on the hill-tops. He came of a line where tradition
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: That the river may not wet me!"
And the Larch, with all its fibres,
Shivered in the air of morning,
Touched his forehead with its tassels,
Slid, with one long sigh of sorrow.
"Take them all, O Hiawatha!"
From the earth he tore the fibres,
Tore the tough roots of the Larch-tree,
Closely sewed the hark together,
Bound it closely to the frame-work.
"Give me of your balm, O Fir-tree!
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mountains by Stewart Edward White: kin see farther and see less than in any other country
in the world."
Now this peculiar directness of phrase means but
one thing,--freedom from the influence of convention.
The cowboy respects neither the dictionary nor
usage. He employs his words in the manner that
best suits him, and arranges them in the sequence
that best expresses his idea, untrammeled by tradition.
It is a phase of the same lawlessness, the same
reliance on self, that makes for his taciturnity and
watchfulness.
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