| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Talisman by Walter Scott: as from the threatened grasp of a lion. De Vaux and the Knight
of the Leopard kept their places beside him; and though the
swords which they held were still sheathed, it was plain that
they were prompt to protect Richard's person to the very last,
and their size and remarkable strength plainly showed the defence
would be a desperate one.
Salisbury and his attendants were also now drawing near, with
bills and partisans brandished, and bows already bended.
At this moment King Philip of France, attended by one or two of
his nobles, came on the platform to inquire the cause of the
disturbance, and made gestures of surprise at finding the King of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: so fond were the jewellers of great rubies that none would wholly
promise to cease trafficking with the wide-mouthed merchants.
If aught of evil ever befalls Dylath-Leen through such traffick,
it will not be his fault.
In about a week the desiderate ship
put in by the black wale and tall lighthouse, and Carter was glad
to see that she was a barque of wholesome men, with painted sides
and yellow lateen sails and a grey captain in silken robes. Her
cargo was the fragrant resin of Oriab's inner groves, and the
delicate pottery baked by the artists of Bahama, and the strange
little figures carved from Ngranek's ancient lava. For this they
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Edingburgh Picturesque Notes by Robert Louis Stevenson: of yore, with the trowel in one hand and the defensive
cutlass in the other; and as soon as one of these masonic
wonders had been consummated, right-minded iconoclasts
should fall thereon and make an end of it at once.
Possibly these words may meet the eye of a builder
or two. It is no use asking them to employ an architect;
for that would be to touch them in a delicate quarter,
and its use would largely depend on what architect they
were minded to call in. But let them get any architect
in the world to point out any reasonably well-
proportioned villa, not his own design; and let them
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