| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: top of all vision. Carter studied the light more closely, and
saw at last what lines its inky background made against the stars.
There were towers on that titan mountaintop; horrible domed towers
in noxious and incalculable tiers and clusters beyond any dreamable
workmanship of man; battlements and terraces of wonder and menace,
all limned tiny and black and distant against the starry pshent
that glowed malevolently at the uppermost rim of sight. Capping
that most measureless of mountains was a castle beyond all mortal
thought, and in it glowed the daemon-light. Then Randolph Carter
knew that his quest was done, and that he saw above him the goal
of all forbidden steps and audacious visions; the fabulous, the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War by Frederick A. Talbot: air, when they swoop down to the attack. The raiders are fully
aware that they are not likely to become the target of fire from
the ground, owing to the fact that the enemy's artillery might
hit its friends. Consequently the antagonistic airmen are left
to settle their own account. In the meantime the dummy machine
draws nearer to the ground to explode and to scatter its
death-dealing fragments of steel, iron, and bullets in all
directions.
Possibly in no other phase of warfare is subterfuge practised so
extensively as in the concealment of guns. The branches of trees
constitute the most complete protection and guns are placed in
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tapestried Chamber by Walter Scott: mansion, to seek in the open air some relief to my nervous
system, shaken as it was by this horrible rencounter with a
visitant, for such I must believe her, from the other world.
Your lordship has now heard the cause of my discomposure, and of
my sudden desire to leave your hospitable castle. In other
places I trust we may often meet, but God protect me from ever
spending a second night under that roof!"
Strange as the General's tale was, he spoke with such a deep air
of conviction that it cut short all the usual commentaries which
are made on such stories. Lord Woodville never once asked him if
he was sure he did not dream of the apparition, or suggested any
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