| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pericles by William Shakespeare: To sing a song that old was sung,
From ashes ancient Gower is come;
Assuming man's infirmities,
To glad your ear, and please your eyes.
It hath been sung at festivals,
On ember-eves and holy-ales;
And lords and ladies in their lives
Have read it for restoratives:
The purchase is to make men glorious;
Et bonum quo antiquius, eo melius.
If you, born in these latter times,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: couched in a style clearly showing the mixed occult erudition
and general illiteracy of the strange being who wrote it. Almost
the first long passage that Armitage deciphered, an entry dated
November 26, 1916, proved highly startling and disquieting. It
was written,he remembered, by a child of three and a half who
looked like a lad of twelve or thirteen.
Today learned the Aklo
for the Sabaoth (it ran), which did not like, it being answerable
from the hill and not from the air. That upstairs more ahead of
me than I had thought it would be, and is not like to have much
earth brain. Shot Elam Hutchins's collie Jack when he went to
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tom Sawyer Abroad by Mark Twain: and bandages, but caved in and went to pieces. Tom
he didn't know WHAT to do. The professor's pipe
wouldn't answer; it warn't anything but a mershum,
and a person that's got used to a cob pipe knows it
lays a long ways over all the other pipes in this world,
and you can't git him to smoke any other. He
wouldn't take mine, I couldn't persuade him. So
there he was.
He thought it over, and said we must scour around
and see if we could roust out one in Egypt or Arabia or
around in some of these countries, but the guide said no,
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