| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: amid black and forbidden realms of the unknown, in which he hoped
to uncover the secret of life and restore to perpetual animation
the graveyard’s cold clay. Such a quest demands strange materials,
among them fresh human bodies; and in order to keep supplied with
these indispensable things one must live quietly and not far from
a place of informal interment.
West and I had met in college,
and I had been the only one to sympathise with his hideous experiments.
Gradually I had come to be his inseparable assistant, and now
that we were out of college we had to keep together. It was not
easy to find a good opening for two doctors in company, but finally
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson: written three or four pretty enough pieces of octosyllabic
nonsense, semi-serious, semi-smiling. A kind of prose Herrick,
divested of the gift of verse, and you behold the Bard. But I like
it.
R. L. S.
Letter: TO W. E. HENLEY
HYERES [JUNE 1883].
DEAR LAD, - I was delighted to hear the good news about -. Bravo,
he goes uphill fast. Let him beware of vanity, and he will go
higher; let him be still discontented, and let him (if it might be)
see the merits and not the faults of his rivals, and he may swarm
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: In the stream he saw a beaver,
Saw Ahmeek, the King of Beavers,
Struggling with the rushing currents,
Rising, sinking in the water.
Without speaking, without pausing,
Kwasind leaped into the river,
Plunged beneath the bubbling surface,
Through the whirlpools chased the beaver,
Followed him among the islands,
Stayed so long beneath the water,
That his terrified companions
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