| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini: attempt. Then he sat down at a marble-topped table by the window
looking out over the wide tree-encircled square. There, in that
common-room of the caf‚, deserted at this hour of mid-afternoon, the
great man came to him. Less than a year ago he had yielded precedence
to Andre-Louis in a matter of delicate leadership; to-day he stood
on the heights, one of the great leaders of the Nation in travail,
and Andre-Louis was deep down in the shadows of the general mass.
The thought was in the minds of both as they scanned each other,
each noting in the other the marked change that a few months had
wrought. In Le Chapelier, Andre-Louis observed certain heightened
refinements of dress that went with certain subtler refinements of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Octopus by Frank Norris: invaded the barn itself, lighting the lamps and lanterns there.
Soon the whole place was gleaming with points of light. Young
Vacca, who had disappeared, returned with his pockets full of wax
candles. He resumed his whittling, refusing to answer any
questions, vociferating that he was busy.
Outside there was a sound of hoofs and voices. More guests had
arrived. The druggist, seized with confusion, terrified lest he
had put on his gloves too soon, thrust his hands into his
pockets. It was Cutter, Magnus Derrick's division
superintendent, who came, bringing his wife and her two girl
cousins. They had come fifteen miles by the trail from the far
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: fanfare of supernal trumpets and a clash of immortal cymbals.
Mystery hung about it as clouds about a fabulous unvisited mountain;
and as Carter stood breathless and expectant on that balustraded
parapet there swept up to him the poignancy and suspense of almost-vanished
memory, the pain of lost things and the maddening need to place
again what once had been an awesome and momentous place.
He
knew that for him its meaning must once have been supreme; though
in what cycle or incarnation he had known it, or whether in dream
or in waking, he could not tell. Vaguely it called up glimpses
of a far forgotten first youth, when wonder and pleasure lay in
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