| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: tongue could hope to convey.
He can do anything that he thinks
best with this account - showing it, with suitable comment, in
any quarters where it will be likely to accomplish good. It is
for the sake of such readers as are unfamiliar with the earlier
phases of my case that I am prefacing the revelation itself with
a fairly ample summary of its background.
My name is Nathaniel
Wingate Peaslee, and those who recall the newspaper tales of a
generation back - or the letters and articles in psychological
journals six or seven years ago - will know who and what I am.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Beast in the Jungle by Henry James: of them. The stupidest fourth cousin had more, even though she had
been nothing in such a person's life. She had been a feature of
features in HIS, for what else was it to have been so
indispensable? Strange beyond saying were the ways of existence,
baffling for him the anomaly of his lack, as he felt it to be, of
producible claim. A woman might have been, as it were, everything
to him, and it might yet present him, in no connexion that any one
seemed held to recognise. If this was the case in these closing
weeks it was the case more sharply on the occasion of the last
offices rendered, in the great grey London cemetery, to what had
been mortal, to what had been precious, in his friend. The
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Commission in Lunacy by Honore de Balzac: makes a total of from fifty to sixty thousand francs a year. Do you
suppose that these people, formerly so extremely poor, can have so
large a fortune? A million yields scarcely forty thousand a year."
"Monsieur, the mother and son invested the money given them by M.
d'Espard in the funds when they were at 60 to 80. I should think their
income must be more than sixty thousand francs. And then the son has
fine appointments."
"If they spend sixty thousand francs a year," said the judge, "how
much do you spend?"
"Well," said Madame d'Espard, "about the same." The Chevalier started
a little, the Marquise colored; Bianchon looked at Rastignac; but
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