| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: lest de Garcia should cause me to be shot at with arrows and musket
balls. Presently as I went I heard him say with an oath:
'He has gone, and for good this time, but my foreboding went near
to coming true after all. Bah! how the sight of that man frightens
me.'
Now I knew in my heart that I was doing a mad thing, for though if
no shark took me, I might float for six or eight hours in this warm
water yet I must sink at last, and what would my struggle have
profited me? Still I swam on slowly, and after the filth and
stench of the slave hold, the touch of the clean water and the
breath of the pure air were like food and wine to me, and I felt
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The King of the Golden River by John Ruskin: yet heavy and dull, as though the knocker had been tied up--more
like a puff than a knock.
"It must be the wind," said Gluck; "nobody else would
venture to knock double knocks at our door."
No, it wasn't the wind; there it came again very hard, and,
what was particularly astounding, the knocker seemed to be in a
hurry and not to be in the least afraid of the consequences. Gluck
went to the window, opened it, and put his head out to see who it was.
It was the most extraordinary-looking little gentleman he had
ever seen in his life. He had a very large nose, slightly brass-
colored; his cheeks were very round and very red, and might have
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft: asking for nightly reports of their dreams, and the dates of any
notable visions for some time past. The reception of his request
seems to have varied; but he must, at the very least, have received
more responses than any ordinary man could have handled without
a secretary. This original correspondence was not preserved, but
his notes formed a thorough and really significant digest. Average
people in society and business - New England's traditional "salt
of the earth" - gave an almost completely negative result, though
scattered cases of uneasy but formless nocturnal impressions appear
here and there, always between March 23 and and April 2 - the
period of young Wilcox's delirium. Scientific men were little
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