| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lemorne Versus Huell by Elizabeth Drew Stoddard: "He knew me," I replied.
"You do not look like the Huells."
"I look precisely like the young woman to whom he was introduced
by Mr. Van Horn."
"Oh ho!"
"He thought it unsafe for me to come alone under William's
charge."
"Ah ha!"
No more was said on the subject of his coming home with me. Aunt
Eliza had several fits of musing in the course of the evening while
I read aloud to her, which had no connection with the subject of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Misalliance by George Bernard Shaw: declaration to this gentleman. _[Gunner makes a vague movement and
looks stupidly round. Percival adds peremptorily]_ Now, please.
GUNNER _[rising apprehensively and reading in a hardly audible voice,
like a very sick man]_ I, John Brown, of 4 Chesterfield Parade,
Kentish Town, do hereby voluntarily confess that on the 31st May 1909
I trespassed on the land of John Tarleton at Hindhead, and effected an
unlawful entry into his house, where I secreted myself in a portable
Turkish bath, with a pistol, with which I threatened to take the life
of the said John Tarleton, and was prevented from doing so only by the
timely arrival of the celebrated Miss Lena Sh-Sh-sheepanossika. I
further confess that I was guilty of uttering an abominable calumny
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: just outside the gate. A fainter trail led away toward the woods,
but it soon gave out.
The next night devils danced on the roofs
of Arkham, and unnatural madness howled in the wind. Through the
fevered town had crept a curse which some said was greater than
the plague, and which some whispered was the embodied daemon-soul
of the plague itself. Eight houses were entered by a nameless
thing which strewed red death in its wake -- in all, seventeen
maimed and shapeless remnants of bodies were left behind by the
voiceless, sadistic monster that crept abroad. A few persons had
half seen it in the dark, and said it was white and like a malformed
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