| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Collection of Beatrix Potter by Beatrix Potter: MISS MOPPET holds
her poor head in her
paws, and looks at him
through a hole in the duster.
The Mouse comes VERY close.
AND then all of a sudden
--Miss Moppet jumps
upon the Mouse!
AND because the Mouse
has teased Miss Moppet
--Miss Moppet thinks she
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Firm of Nucingen by Honore de Balzac: office till the time came for putting them on the market. The
shareholders' money floated the concern, and paid for splendid
business premises, so they began operations. And Nucingen held in
reserve founders' shares in Heaven knows what coal and argentiferous
lead-mines, also in a couple of canals; the shares had been given to
him for bringing out the concerns. All four were in working order,
well got up and popular, for they paid good dividends.
"Nucingen might, of course, count on getting the differences if the
shares went up, but this formed no part of the Baron's schemes; he
left the shares at sea-level on the market to tempt the fishes.
"So he had massed his securities as Napoleon massed his troops, all
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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: as regards such shadows - though even this seems doubtful in the
light of those other cases which I later came to study. But the
chief point is that my own ancestry and background are altogether
normal. What came, came from somewhere else - where I even now
hesitate to assert in plain words.
I am the son of Jonathan
and Hannah (Wingate) Peaslee, both of wholesome old Haverhill
stock. I was born and reared in Haverhill - at the old homestead
in Boardman Street near Golden Hill - and did not go to Arkham
till I entered Miskatonic University as instructor of political
economy in 1895.
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