| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson: "Which is what I never did," said Alan.
"But aside from that," I continued, "what have I done that you
should even me to dogs by such a supposition? I never yet failed
a friend, and it's not likely I'll begin with you. There are
things between us that I can never forget, even if you can."
"I will only say this to ye, David," said Alan, very quietly,
"that I have long been owing ye my life, and now I owe ye money.
Ye should try to make that burden light for me."
This ought to have touched me, and in a manner it did, but the
wrong manner. I felt I was behaving, badly; and was now not only
angry with Alan, but angry with myself in the bargain; and it
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Exiles by Honore de Balzac: reverence, looked from the old man to Doctor Sigier; they were talking
together in an undertone.
"All honor to the Master!" said the stranger.
"What is such transient honor?" replied Sigier.
"I would I could perpetuate my gratitude," said the older man.
"A line written by you is enough!" said the Doctor. "It would give me
immortality, humanly speaking."
"Can I give what I have not?" cried the elder.
Escorted by the crowd, which followed in their footsteps, like
courtiers round a king, at a respectful distance, Godefroid, with the
old man and the Doctor, made their way to the oozy shore, where as yet
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: they had sealed the entrances and left them to their fate, afterward
occupying most of their great cities and preserving certain important
buildings for reasons connected more with superstition than with
indifference, boldness, or scientific and historical zeal.
But
as the aeons passed there came vague, evil signs that the elder
things were growing strong and numerous in the inner world. There
were sporadic irruptions of a particularly hideous character in
certain small and remote cities of the Great Race, and in some
of the deserted elder cities which the Great Race had not peopled
- places where the paths to the gulfs below had not been properly
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