| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: and petted the sleek cats of Ulthar as they licked their chops,
and did not mourn because those inquisitive Zoogs would escort
him no farther.
It was sunset now, so Carter stopped at an ancient
inn on a steep little street overlooking the lower town. And as
he went out on the balcony of his room and gazed down at the sea
of red tiled roofs and cobbled ways and the pleasant fields beyond,
all mellow and magical in the slanted light, he swore that Ulthar
would be a very likely place to dwell in always, were not the
memory of a greater sunset city ever goading one onward toward
unknown perils. Then twilight fell, and the pink walls of the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: Shakespeare, dead only 300 years, is almost completely lost
in the mist of Time, and even the authenticity of his
works has become a subject of controversy; when you find
that William Tell, supposed to have lived some 300
years again before Shakespeare, and whose deeds in minutest
detail have been recited and honored all over Europe, is almost
certainly a pure invention, and never existed; when
you remember--as mentioned earlier in this book[1]--that
it was more than five hundred years after the supposed
birth of Jesus before any serious effort was made to establish
the date of that birth--and that then a purely mythical date
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Case of The Lamp That Went Out by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: better myself," growled the tramp, pushing the old man away from
him. Goldstamm had really begun to tremble now in spite of his
control, in the fear that the man would get away from him before the
police came.
The tramp was already dressed in the new suit, into a pocket of
which he put the old purse.
"There, now the boots and then we're finished," said the dealer
with an attempt at a smile. In his heart he prayed that the pair
he now held in his hand might not fit, that he might gain a few
minutes more. But the shoes did fit. A little pushing and stamping
and the man was ready to leave the store. He was evidently in a
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