| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Maitre Cornelius by Honore de Balzac: executions were the result of cool calculations, and that their real
object was to relieve him of all fear for his treasure.
The first effect of these rumors was to isolate Maitre Cornelius. The
Touraineans treated him like a leper, called him the "tortionnaire,"
and named his house Malemaison. If the Fleming had found strangers to
the town bold enough to enter it, the inhabitants would have warned
them against doing so. The most favorable opinion of Maitre Cornelius
was that of persons who thought him merely baneful. Some he inspired
with instinctive terror; others he impressed with the deep respect
that most men feel for limitless power and money, while to a few he
certainly possessed the attraction of mystery. His way of life, his
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: to work on.
Morning found Dr Armitage in a cold sweat of terror
and a frenzy of wakeful concentration. He had not left the manuscript
all night, but sat at his table under the electric light turning
page after page with shaking hands as fast as he could decipher
the cryptic text. He had nervously telephoned his wife he would
not be home, and when she brought him a breakfast from the house
he could scarcely dispose of a mouthful. All that day he read
on, now and then halted maddeningly as a reapplication of the
complex key became necessary. Lunch and dinner were brought him,
but he ate only the smallest fraction of either. Toward the middle
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tattine by Ruth Ogden [Mrs. Charles W. Ide]: everything they come across, birds and rabbits and chipmunks."
"Tattine," said Grandma Luty, with her dear, kindly smile "your Mother has
told me how disappointed you have been this summer in Betsy and Doctor and
little Black-and-white, and that now Barney has fallen into disgrace, since he
kept you so long in the ford the other day, but I want to tell you something.
You must not stop loving them at all because they do what you call cruel
things. You have heard the old rhyme:--
"Let dogs delight to bark and bite,
For God has made them so:
Let bears and lions growl and fight,
For 'tis their nature to."
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