| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: our fame would be brilliantly and perpetually established. So
without delay West had injected into the body’s wrist the compound
which would hold it fresh for use after my arrival. The matter
of the presumably weak heart, which to my mind imperilled the
success of our experiment, did not appear to trouble West extensively.
He hoped at last to obtain what he had never obtained before --
a rekindled spark of reason and perhaps a normal, living creature.
So on the night of July 18, 1910, Herbert West and I stood in
the cellar laboratory and gazed at a white, silent figure beneath
the dazzling arc-light. The embalming compound had worked uncannily
well, for as I stared fascinatedly at the sturdy frame which had
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Beast in the Jungle by Henry James: sounding for the hour as new. She could thus at present meet his
enquiry quite freshly and patiently. "Oh yes, I've repeatedly
thought, only it always seemed to me of old that I couldn't quite
make up my mind. I thought of dreadful things, between which it
was difficult to choose; and so must you have done."
"Rather! I feel now as if I had scarce done anything else. I
appear to myself to have spent my life in thinking of nothing but
dreadful things. A great many of them I've at different times
named to you, but there were others I couldn't name."
"They were too, too dreadful?"
"Too, too dreadful--some of them."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau by Honore de Balzac: astonished clerks, who did not know what to make of these gorgeous
toilets and the abnormal coach, ignorant as they were of the great
project revolving in the mind of the master of "The Queen of Roses."
"We are going to hear the truth about nuts," said Cesar, half to
himself.
"Nuts?" said Popinot.
"There you have my secret," said the perfumer. "I've let loose the
word /nuts/,--all is there. The oil of nuts is the only oil that has
any real effect upon hair. No perfumer has ever dreamed of it. I saw
an engraving of Hero and Leander, and I said to myself, If the
ancients used all that oil on their heads they had some reason for it;
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