| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: agin, an' this time by day! It's aout - it's aout an' a-movin'
this very minute, an' only the Lord knows when it'll be on us
all!'
The speaker panted into silence, but another took up his
message.
'Nigh on a haour ago Zeb Whateley here heered the 'phone
a-ringin', an' it was Mis' Corey, George's wife, that lives daown
by the junction. She says the hired boy Luther was aout drivin'
in the caows from the storm arter the big bolt, when he see all
the trees a-bendin' at the maouth o' the glen - opposite side
ter this - an' smelt the same awful smell like he smelt when he
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Daughter of Eve by Honore de Balzac: "Is it nothing then, Eugenie," said the Countess, "thus to restore
life to the dead?"
"You have a chance yet with the Royal Humane Society," replied
Eugenie, with a smile."
"How wretched and depressed he looked when he came, and how happy he
will go away!"
At this moment du Tillet, coming up to Raoul with every mark of
friendliness, pressed his hand, and said:
"Well, old fellow, how are you?"
"As well as a man is likely to be who has just got the best possible
news of the election. I shall be successful," replied Raoul, radiant.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Art of Writing by Robert Louis Stevenson: to be the centre-piece of my own meditated fiction. In the
course of this vain search there cropped up in my memory a
singular case of a buried and resuscitated fakir, which I had
been often told by an uncle of mine, then lately dead,
Inspector-General John Balfour.
On such a fine frosty night, with no wind and the thermometer
below zero, the brain works with much vivacity; and the next
moment I had seen the circumstance transplanted from India
and the tropics to the Adirondack wilderness and the
stringent cold of the Canadian border. Here then, almost
before I had begun my story, I had two countries, two of the
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