| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Call of the Canyon by Zane Grey: To the left of the fireplace was a rude cupboard of shelves, packed with
boxes, cans, bags, and utensils. Below the cupboard, hung upon pegs, were
blackened pots and pans, a long-handled skillet, and a bucket. Glenn's
table was a masterpiece. There was no danger of knocking it over. It
consisted of four poles driven into the ground, upon which had been nailed
two wide slabs. This table showed considerable evidence of having been
scrubbed scrupulously clean. There were two low stools, made out of boughs,
and the seats had been covered with woolly sheep hide. In the right-hand
corner stood a neat pile of firewood, cut with an ax, and beyond this hung
saddle and saddle blanket, bridle and spurs. An old sombrero was hooked
upon the pommel of the saddle. Upon the wall, higher up, hung a lantern,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Cratylus by Plato: speaking, and as things ought to be spoken, and with the natural
instrument? Any other mode of speaking will result in error and failure.
HERMOGENES: I quite agree with you.
SOCRATES: And is not naming a part of speaking? for in giving names men
speak.
HERMOGENES: That is true.
SOCRATES: And if speaking is a sort of action and has a relation to acts,
is not naming also a sort of action?
HERMOGENES: True.
SOCRATES: And we saw that actions were not relative to ourselves, but had
a special nature of their own?
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: any quarters where it will be likely to accomplish good. It is
for the sake of such readers as are unfamiliar with the earlier
phases of my case that I am prefacing the revelation itself with
a fairly ample summary of its background.
My name is Nathaniel
Wingate Peaslee, and those who recall the newspaper tales of a
generation back - or the letters and articles in psychological
journals six or seven years ago - will know who and what I am.
The press was filled with the details of my strange amnesia in
1908-13, and much was made of the traditions of horror, madness,
and witchcraft which lurked behind the ancient Massachusetts town
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