| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe: facility of his impromptus could not be so accounted for.
They must have been, and were, in the notes, as well as in the
words of his wild fantasias (for he not unfrequently accompanied
himself with rhymed verbal improvisations), the result of that
intense mental collectedness and concentration to which I have
previously alluded as observable only in particular moments of
the highest artificial excitement. The words of one of these
rhapsodies I have easily remembered. I was, perhaps, the more
forcibly impressed with it, as he gave it, because, in the under
or mystic current of its meaning, I fancied that I perceived, and
for the first time, a full consciousness on the part of Usher, of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Melmoth Reconciled by Honore de Balzac: seem to breathe at all. Castanier looked, and saw that the door at the
end of the passage was wide open; the stranger must have entered by
that way.
For the first time in his life the old soldier felt a sensation of
dread that made him stare open-mouthed and wide-eyed at the man before
him; and for that matter, the appearance of the apparition was
sufficiently alarming even if unaccompanied by the mysterious
circumstances of so sudden an entry. The rounded forehead, the harsh
coloring of the long oval face, indicated quite as plainly as the cut
of his clothes that the man was an Englishman, reeking of his native
isles. You had only to look at the collar of his overcoat, at the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: the Zidonians, and had no business with any man.
JDG 18:8 And they came unto their brethren to Zorah and Eshtaol: and
their brethren said unto them, What say ye?
JDG 18:9 And they said, Arise, that we may go up against them: for we
have seen the land, and, behold, it is very good: and are ye still? be
not slothful to go, and to enter to possess the land.
JDG 18:10 When ye go, ye shall come unto a people secure, and to a
large land: for God hath given it into your hands; a place where there
is no want of any thing that is in the earth.
JDG 18:11 And there went from thence of the family of the Danites, out
of Zorah and out of Eshtaol, six hundred men appointed with weapons of
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