| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson: durable and unvarying as any heathen deity. I always heard it, as
a horseman riding past with his cloak about his head, and somehow
always carried away, and riding past again, and being baffled yet
once more, AD INFINITUM, all night long. I think I wanted him to
get past, but I am not sure; I know only that I had some interest
either for or against in the matter; and I used to lie and hold my
breath, not quite frightened, but in a state of miserable
exaltation.
My first John Knox is in proof, and my second is on the anvil. It
is very good of me so to do; for I want so much to get to my real
tour and my sham tour, the real tour first: it is always working
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: senses I have ever exercised in the visionary world.
The real
horror began in May, 1915, when I first saw the living things.
This was before my studies had taught me what, in view of the
myths and case histories, to expect. As mental barriers wore down,
I beheld great masses of thin vapour in various parts of the building
and in the streets below.
These steadily grew more solid and
distinct, till at last I could trace their monstrous outlines
with uncomfortable ease. They seemed to be enormous, iridescent
cones, about ten feet high and ten feet wide at the base, and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Start in Life by Honore de Balzac: Oscar can find such ladies as that on every bush--if he pays for them.
Some fine morning you'll find yourself with a load of debt on your
back."
"You are always trying to put me in despair!" cried Madame Clapart.
"You complained that my son lived on your salary, and never has he
cost you a penny. For two years you haven't had the slightest cause of
complaint against him; here he is second clerk, his uncle and Monsieur
Moreau pay all expenses, and he earns, himself, a salary of eight
hundred francs. If we have bread to eat in our old age we may owe it
all to that dear boy. You are really too unjust--"
"You call my foresight unjust, do you?" replied the invalid, crossly.
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