| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: distance, towering up to its height of almost fifteen thousand
feet.
The successful establishment of the southern base above
the glacier in Latitude 86° 7’, East Longitude 174° 23’, and the
phenomenally rapid and effective borings and blastings made at
various points reached by our sledge trips and short aeroplane
flights, are matters of history; as is the arduous and triumphant
ascent of Mt. Nansen by Pabodie and two of the graduate students
- Gedney and Carroll - on December 13 - 15. We were some eight
thousand, five hundred feet above sea-level, and when experimental
drillings revealed solid ground only twelve feet down through
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: Grenville's ear. For the kind woman, knowing that she was
motherless and guileless, carried her off into Mrs. St. Leger's
chamber, and there entreated her to tell the truth, and heaped her
with pity but with no comfort. For indeed, what comfort was there
to give?
. . . . . . .
Three o'clock, upon a still pure bright midsummer morning. A broad
and yellow sheet of ribbed tide-sands, through which the shallow
river wanders from one hill-foot to the other, whispering round
dark knolls of rock, and under low tree-fringed cliffs, and banks
of golden broom. A mile below, the long bridge and the white
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H. B. Irving: advancing to greet his visitor, he stood fixed to the spot, and
waited, as if defensively, for Mr. Blake to speak. In answer to
Mr. Blake's questions Webster described his interview with Dr.
Parkman on the Friday afternoon. He gave a very similar account
of it to that he had already given to Mr. Francis Parkman. He
added that at the end of their interview he had asked the Doctor
for the return of the mortgage, to which the latter had replied,
"I haven't it with me, but I will see it is properly cancelled."
Mr. Blake asked Webster if he could recollect in what form of
money it was that he had paid Dr. Parkman. Webster answered that
he could only recollect a bill of L20 on the New Zealand Bank:
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