| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: Meanwhile, the Great Race maintained its cautious vigilance,
with potent weapons ceaselessly ready despite the horrified banishing
of the subject from common speech and visible records. And always
the shadow of nameless fear hung bout the sealed trap-doors and
the dark, windowless elder towers.
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That is the world of
which my dreams brought me dim, scattered echoes every night.
I cannot hope to give any true idea of the horror and dread contained
in such echoes, for it was upon a wholly intangible quality -
the sharp sense of pseudo-memory - that such feelings mainly depended.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Island Nights' Entertainments by Robert Louis Stevenson: sun invisible by reason of these charms. Yet they hear us; and
therefore it is well to speak softly, as I do."
With that he made a circle round the mat with stones, and in the
midst he set the leaves.
"It will be your part," said he, "to keep the leaves alight, and
feed the fire slowly. While they blaze (which is but for a little
moment) I must do my errand; and before the ashes blacken, the same
power that brought us carries us away. Be ready now with the
match; and do you call me in good time lest the flames burn out and
I be left."
As soon as the leaves caught, the sorcerer leaped like a deer out
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Fantastic Fables by Ambrose Bierce: arbitration.
Two Footpads
Two Footpads sat at their grog in a roadside resort, comparing the
evening's adventures.
"I stood up the Chief of Police," said the First Footpad, "and I
got away with what he had."
"And I," said the Second Footpad, "stood up the United States
District Attorney, and got away with - "
"Good Lord!" interrupted the other in astonishment and admiration -
"you got away with what that fellow had?"
"No," the unfortunate narrator explained - "with a small part of
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