| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mayflower Compact: the eighteenth, and of Scotland, the fiftie-fourth,
Anno. Domini, 1620.
Mr. John Carver Mr. Stephen Hopkins
Mr. William Bradford Digery Priest
Mr. Edward Winslow Thomas Williams
Mr. William Brewster Gilbert Winslow
Isaac Allerton Edmund Margesson
Miles Standish Peter Brown
John Alden Richard Bitteridge
John Turner George Soule
Francis Eaton Edward Tilly
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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: at the stupefying identity of the colossal statues and bas-reliefs
with the queer image found in the shrine on the Alert, is poignantly
visible in every line of the mates frightened description.
Without
knowing what futurism is like, Johansen achieved something very
close to it when he spoke of the city; for instead of describing
any definite structure or building, he dwells only on broad impressions
of vast angles and stone surfaces - surfaces too great to belong
to anything right or proper for this earth, and impious with horrible
images and hieroglyphs. I mention his talk about angles because
it suggests something Wilcox had told me of his awful dreams.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Red Seal by Natalie Sumner Lincoln: and sheltered herself behind Kent. "Mr. Turnbull accepted the
check; later something must have aroused his suspicions, and I
found when he questioned me that he believed Colonel McIntyre had
forged the check."
"Good heavens! You let him think that?" gasped McIntyre; then
wrath gained the mastery. "You scoundrel!"
"Oh, I encouraged him to think it," Sylvester grinned again. "You
must have handed Mr. Turnbull a raw deal; he was so ready to think
evil of you."
"That is a lie!" exclaimed Helen hotly. "When I went downstairs to
investigate the noise I heard in the library, father, Jimmie told
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