| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Land of Footprints by Stewart Edward White: horn. B. wanted a well developed specimen very much, so we took
this chance. The approach was easy enough, and at seventy yards
or so B. knocked her flat with a bullet from his .465 Holland.
The beast was immediately afoot, but was as promptly smothered by
shots from us all. So far the affair was very simple, but now
came complication. The second rhinoceros refused to leave. We did
not want to kill it, so we spent a lot of time and pains shooing
it away. We showered rocks and clods of earth in his direction;
we yelled sharply and whistled shrilly. The brute faced here and
there, his pig eyes blinking, his snout upraised, trying to
locate us, and declining to budge. At length he gave us up as
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling: bow to Jerry - "you will please lend him your pistol, or he shall
have mine. I give you my word I know not which is best; and if he
will choose a second from his friends over there" - another bow
to our drunken yokels at the gate - "we will commence."
'"That's fair enough," said Jerry. "Tom Dunch, you owe it to
the Doctor to be his second. Place your man."
'"No," said Tom. "No mixin' in gentry's quarrels for me."
And he shook his head and went out, and the others followed him.
'"Hold on," said Jerry. "You've forgot what you set out to do
up at the alehouse just now. You was goin' to search me for
witch-marks; you was goin' to duck me in the pond; you was
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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: any words the press would understand, and a latter point when
we had to adopt an actual rule of strict censorship.
The sailor
Larsen was first to spy the jagged line of witchlike cones and
pinnacles ahead, and his shouts sent everyone to the windows of
the great cabined plane. Despite our speed, they were very slow
in gaining prominence; hence we knew that they must be infinitely
far off, and visible only because of their abnormal height. Little
by little, however, they rose grimly into the western sky; allowing
us to distinguish various bare, bleak, blackish summits, and to
catch the curious sense of fantasy which they inspired as seen
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