| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: anything he did -- that was when it dawned on me that his once
normal scientific zeal for prolonging life had subtly degenerated
into a mere morbid and ghoulish curiosity and secret sense of
charnel picturesqueness. His interest became a hellish and perverse
addiction to the repellently and fiendishly abnormal; he gloated
calmly over artificial monstrosities which would make most healthy
men drop dead from fright and disgust; he became, behind his pallid
intellectuality, a fastidious Baudelaire of physical experiment
-- a languid Elagabalus of the tombs.
Dangers he met unflinchingly;
crimes he committed unmoved. I think the climax came when he had
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Underground City by Jules Verne: of the fissures was clearly visible by the light of the lamp.
It had been recently done with lime, leaving on the rock a long
whitish mark, badly concealed with coal dust.
"It's he!" exclaimed Harry. "It can only be he!"
"He?" repeated James Starr in amazement.
"Yes!" returned the young man, "that mysterious being who haunts
our domain, for whom I have watched a hundred times without
being able to get at him--the author, we may now be certain,
of that letter which was intended to hinder you from coming to see
my father, Mr. Starr, and who finally threw that stone at us
in the gallery of the Yarrow shaft! Ah! there's no doubt about it;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: and get nothing? Thank you.'
'It's like you to feel gratitude, Morris,' began Michael.
'O, I know it's no good appealing to you, you sneering devil!'
cried Morris. 'But there's a stranger present, I can't think why,
and I appeal to him. I was robbed of that money when I was an
orphan, a mere child, at a commercial academy. Since then, I've
never had a wish but to get back my own. You may hear a lot of
stuff about me; and there's no doubt at times I have been
ill-advised. But it's the pathos of my situation; that's what I
want to show you.'
'Morris,' interrupted Michael, 'I do wish you would let me add
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