| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Recruit by Honore de Balzac: way to the mayor's house, and the way-worn recruit soon found himself
seated in the porch of that establishment, waiting for the billet he
had asked for. Instead of receiving it at once, he was summoned to the
mayor's presence, where he found himself the object of minute
observation. The young man was good-looking, and belonged, evidently,
to a distinguished family. His air and manner were those of the
nobility. The intelligence of a good education was in his face.
"What is your name?" asked the mayor, giving him a shrewd and meaning
look.
"Julien Jussieu."
"Where do you come from?" continued the magistrate, with a smile of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Life of the Spider by J. Henri Fabre: to that with which she sealed the egg-pocket.
When these arrangements are made, the real manufacture of the
wrapper begins. The Spider goes backwards and forwards, turns and
turns again. The spinnerets do not touch the fabric. With a
rhythmical, alternate movement, the hind-legs, the sole implements
employed, draw the thread, seize it in their combs and apply it to
the work, while the tip of the abdomen sways methodically to and
fro.
In this way, the silken fibre is distributed in an even zigzag, of
almost geometrical precision and comparable with that of the cotton
thread which the machines in our factories roll so neatly into
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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: period when... consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes
and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity...
forms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory
and called them gods, monsters, mythical beings of all sorts and
kinds...
- Algernon Blackwood
I. The Horror In Clay
The most
merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid
island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and
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