| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: longer or shorter while.
When a captive mind of alien origin
was returned to its own body in the future, it was purged by an
intricate mechanical hypnosis of all it had learned in the Great
Race's age - this because of certain troublesome consequences
inherent in the general carrying forward of knowledge in large
quantities.
The few existing instances of clear transmission
had caused, and would cause at known future times, great disasters.
And it was largely in consequence of two cases of this kind -
said the old myths - that mankind had learned what it had concerning
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne: too expensive, - and simple economy was not a match for it: - there
was no resource but commerce.
In any other province in France, save Brittany, this was smiting
the root for ever of the little tree his pride and affection wish'd
to see re-blossom. - But in Brittany, there being a provision for
this, he avail'd himself of it; and, taking an occasion when the
states were assembled at Rennes, the Marquis, attended with his two
boys, entered the court; and having pleaded the right of an ancient
law of the duchy, which, though seldom claim'd, he said, was no
less in force, he took his sword from his side: - Here, said he,
take it; and be trusty guardians of it, till better times put me in
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare: Yet doth it steal sweet hours from love's delight.
I may not evermore acknowledge thee,
Lest my bewailed guilt should do thee shame,
Nor thou with public kindness honour me,
Unless thou take that honour from thy name:
But do not so, I love thee in such sort,
As thou being mine, mine is thy good report.
XXXVII
As a decrepit father takes delight
To see his active child do deeds of youth,
So I, made lame by Fortune's dearest spite,
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