| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tom Grogan by F. Hopkinson Smith: eyes that always looked over one's head when he talked. It was
the property of Mr. Peter Lathers, the yardmaster of the depot.
"When you're done payin' off maybe you'll step outside, sir," he
said, in a confiding tone. "I got a friend of mine who wants to
know you. He's a stevedore, and does the work to the fort. He's
never done nothin' for you, but I told him next time you come down
I'd fetch him over. Say, Dan!" beckoning with his head over his
shoulder; then, turning to Babcock,--"I make you acquainted, sir,
with Mr. Daniel McGaw."
Two faces now filled the window--Lathers's and that of a
red-headed man in a straw hat.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: will loose the dogs, and with javelins in hand himself advance towards
the nearest fawn in the direction of where he saw it laid to rest;
carefully noting the lie of the land,[12] for fear of making some
mistake; since the place itself will present a very different aspect
on approach from what it looked like at a distance.
[4] See above, v. 14. I do not know that any one has answered
Schneider's question: Quidni sensum eundem servavit homo
religiosus in hinnulis?
[5] "The fawns (of the roe deer) are born in the spring, usually early
in May," Lydekker, "R. N. H." ii. p. 383; of the red deer
"generally in the early part of June," ib. 346.
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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: the city seemed marked by a broad, depressed line, while the land
assumed a somewhat greater ruggedness, seeming to slope slightly
upward as it receded in the mist-hazed west.
So far we had made
no landing, yet to leave the plateau without an attempt at entering
some of the monstrous structures would have been inconceivable.
Accordingly, we decided to find a smooth place on the foothills
near our navigable pass, there grounding the plane and preparing
to do some exploration on foot. Though these gradual slopes were
partly covered with a scattering of ruins, low flying soon disclosed
an ampler number of possible landing places. Selecting that nearest
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