| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tom Sawyer, Detective by Mark Twain: marble time, and next mumbletypeg, and next tops and hoops,
and next kites, and then right away it would be summer
and going in a-swimming. It just makes a boy homesick
to look ahead like that and see how far off summer is.
Yes, and it sets him to sighing and saddening around,
and there's something the matter with him, he don't know what.
But anyway, he gets out by himself and mopes and thinks;
and mostly he hunts for a lonesome place high up on the
hill in the edge of the woods, and sets there and looks
away off on the big Mississippi down there a-reaching
miles and miles around the points where the timber looks
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Laches by Plato: tell you the pleasure which I feel in hearing of your fame; and I hope that
you will regard me as one of your warmest friends. You ought to have
visited us long ago, and made yourself at home with us; but now, from this
day forward, as we have at last found one another out, do as I say--come
and make acquaintance with me, and with these young men, that I may
continue your friend, as I was your father's. I shall expect you to do so,
and shall venture at some future time to remind you of your duty. But what
say you of the matter of which we were beginning to speak--the art of
fighting in armour? Is that a practice in which the lads may be
advantageously instructed?
SOCRATES: I will endeavour to advise you, Lysimachus, as far as I can in
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: normal - to lay everything to an outbreak of madness on the part
of some of Lake’s party. From the look of things, that demon mountain
wind must have been enough to drive any man mad in the midst of
this center of all earthly mystery and desolation.
The crowning
abnormality, of course, was the condition of the bodies - men
and dogs alike. They had all been in some terrible kind of conflict,
and were torn and mangled in fiendish and altogether inexplicable
ways. Death, so far as we could judge, had in each case come from
strangulation or laceration. The dogs had evidently started the
trouble, for the state of their ill-built corral bore witness
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