| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from My Aunt Margaret's Mirror by Walter Scott: visitors to the care of the servant. It was with difficulty that
Lady Bothwell sustained her sister to the carriage, though it was
only twenty steps distant. When they arrived at home, Lady
Forester required medical assistance. The physician of the
family attended, and shook his head on feeling her pulse.
"Here has been," he said, "a violent and sudden shock on the
nerves. I must know how it has happened."
Lady Bothwell admitted they had visited the conjurer, and that
Lady Forester had received some bad news respecting her husband,
Sir Philip.
"That rascally quack would make my fortune, were he to stay in
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: Naturally, no one set of carvings
which we encountered told more than a fraction of any connected
story, nor did we even begin to come upon the various stages of
that story in their proper order. Some of the vast rooms were
independent units so far as their designs were concerned, whilst
in other cases a continuous chronicle would be carried through
a series of rooms and corridors. The best of the maps and diagrams
were on the walls of a frightful abyss below even the ancient
ground level - a cavern perhaps two hundred feet square and sixty
feet high, which had almost undoubtedly been an educational center
of some sort. There were many provoking repetitions of the same
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: every kind of evil fell upon mankind. Corruptio optimi
pessima. It must be remembered too that simultaneous
with this sexual disruption occurred the disruption of
other human relations; and we cease to be surprised that
disease and selfish passions, greed, jealousy, slander, cruelty,
and wholesale murder, raged--and have raged ever since.
[1] For the special meaning of these two terms, see The Drama of
Love and Death, by E. Carpenter, pp. 59-61.
[2] Ernest Crawley in The Mystic Rose challenges this
identification of Religion with tribal interests; yet his
arguments are not very convincing. On p. 5 he admits that "there
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