| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Road to Oz by L. Frank Baum: way, although she was quite sure she could find the rooms herself.
She took Button-Bright with her, because he seemed too small to be
left alone in such a big palace; but Jellia Jamb herself ushered the
beautiful Daughter of the Rainbow to her apartments, because it was
easy to see that Polychrome was used to splendid palaces and was
therefore entitled to especial attention.
19. The Shaggy Man's Welcome
The shaggy man stood in the great hall, his shaggy hat in his hands,
wondering what would become of him. He had never been a guest in a
fine palace before; perhaps he had never been a guest anywhere. In
the big, cold, outside world people did not invite shaggy men to their
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tom Sawyer Abroad by Mark Twain: have the dickens's own time to find it again the next
time you wanted it. And look at Russia. It spreads
all around and everywhere, and yet ain't no more im-
portant in this world than Rhode Island is, and hasn't
got half as much in it that's worth saving."
Away off now we see a little hill, a-standing up just
on the edge of the world. Tom broke off his talk, and
reached for a glass very much excited, and took a look,
and says:
"That's it -- it's the one I've been looking for,
sure. If I'm right, it's the one the dervish took the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: notebook and had young Moulton run back to the camp to dispatch
it by wireless. This was my first word of the discovery, and it
told of the identification of early shells, bones of ganoids and
placoderms, remnants of labyrinthodonts and thecodonts, great
mosasaur skull fragments, dinosaur vertebrae and armor plates,
pterodactyl teeth and wing bones, Archaeopteryx debris, Miocene
sharks’ teeth, primitive bird skulls, and other bones of archaic
mammals such as palaeotheres, Xiphodons, Eohippi, Oreodons, and
titanotheres. There was nothing as recent as a mastodon, elephant,
true camel, deer, or bovine animal; hence Lake concluded that
the last deposits had occurred during the Oligocene Age, and that
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