| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Case of the Golden Bullet by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: train at midnight.
And during these evening hours Fellner's apartment was a convenient
place for pleasant meetings; and nothing prevented the Professor
from accompanying his beautiful friend home through the quiet
Promenade, along the turnpike to the hunting castle. And Johann
had once found a dog-whip in his master's room-and Councillor Leo
Kniepp, head of the Forestry Department, was the possessor of a
beautiful Ulmer hound which took an active interest in people who
wore clothes belonging to Fellner.
Furthermore, in the little drawer of the bedside table in the
murdered man's room, there had been found a tortoise-shell hairpin;
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce: They never had not read before.
Jorrock Wormley
UNITARIAN, n. One who denies the divinity of a Trinitarian.
UNIVERSALIST, n. One who forgoes the advantage of a Hell for persons
of another faith.
URBANITY, n. The kind of civility that urban observers ascribe to
dwellers in all cities but New York. Its commonest expression is
heard in the words, "I beg your pardon," and it is not consistent with
disregard of the rights of others.
The owner of a powder mill
Was musing on a distant hill --
The Devil's Dictionary |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Princess of Parms by Edgar Rice Burroughs: The buildings I had been hammering at in the early
morning were occupied only by stock and farm produce,
the house proper standing among a grove of enormous trees,
and, like all red-Martian homes, had been raised at night
some forty or fifty feet from the ground on a large round
metal shaft which slid up or down within a sleeve sunk in
the ground, and was operated by a tiny radium engine in
the entrance hall of the building. Instead of bothering with
bolts and bars for their dwellings, the red Martians simply
run them up out of harm's way during the night. They also
have private means for lowering or raising them from the
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