| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Europeans by Henry James: sat a young man who was busily plying a pencil.
He had a number of sheets of paper cut into small equal squares,
and he was apparently covering them with pictorial designs--
strange-looking figures. He worked rapidly and attentively,
sometimes threw back his head and held out his drawing at
arm's-length, and kept up a soft, gay-sounding humming and whistling.
The lady brushed past him in her walk; her much-trimmed skirts
were voluminous. She never dropped her eyes upon his work;
she only turned them, occasionally, as she passed, to a mirror
suspended above the toilet-table on the other side of the room.
Here she paused a moment, gave a pinch to her waist with her
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft: and he does not even recall when William Briden, his companion,
died. Briden's death reveals no apparent cause, and was probably
due to excitement or exposure. Cable advices from Dunedin report
that the Alert was well known there as an island trader, and bore
an evil reputation along the waterfront, It was owned by a curious
group of half-castes whose frequent meetings and night trips to
the woods attracted no little curiosity; and it had set sail in
great haste just after the storm and earth tremors of March 1st.
Our Auckland correspondent gives the Emma and her crew an excellent
reputation, and Johansen is described as a sober and worthy man.
The admiralty will institute an inquiry on the whole matter beginning
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Princess by Alfred Tennyson: Seemed the full lips, and mild the luminous eyes,
And the voice trembled and the hand. She said
Brokenly, that she knew it, she had failed
In sweet humility; had failed in all;
That all her labour was but as a block
Left in the quarry; but she still were loth,
She still were loth to yield herself to one
That wholly scorned to help their equal rights
Against the sons of men, and barbarous laws.
She prayed me not to judge their cause from her
That wronged it, sought far less for truth than power
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