| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Commission in Lunacy by Honore de Balzac: the sun shines, most delinquents to the police courts.
Half-way down this street, which is always damp, and where the gutter
carries to the Seine the blackened waters from some dye-works, there
is an old house, restored no doubt under Francis I., and built of
bricks held together by a few courses of masonry. That it is
substantial seems proved by the shape of its front wall, not
uncommonly seen in some parts of Paris. It bellies, so to speak, in a
manner caused by the protuberance of its first floor, crushed under
the weight of the second and third, but upheld by the strong wall of
the ground floor. At first sight it would seem as though the piers
between the windows, though strengthened by the stone mullions, must
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Jolly Corner by Henry James: wonder at the depth and the duration of his swoon.
"Since last night?" she asked with a shade of fear for her possible
indiscretion.
"Since this morning - it must have been: the cold dim dawn of to-
day. Where have I been," he vaguely wailed, "where have I been?"
He felt her hold him close, and it was as if this helped him now to
make in all security his mild moan. "What a long dark day!"
All in her tenderness she had waited a moment. "In the cold dim
dawn?" she quavered.
But he had already gone on piecing together the parts of the whole
prodigy. "As I didn't turn up you came straight - ?"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft: rise in sing-song chant that hideous phrase or ritual:
"Ph'nglui
mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn."
Then the men, having
reached a spot where the trees were thinner, came suddenly in
sight of the spectacle itself. Four of them reeled, one fainted,
and two were shaken into a frantic cry which the mad cacophony
of the orgy fortunately deadened. Legrasse dashed swamp water
on the face of the fainting man, and all stood trembling and nearly
hypnotised with horror.
In a natural glade of the swamp stood
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