| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Fables by Robert Louis Stevenson: Jack put aside the leaves; and there was a lad of his own village,
leaping, and dancing and singing to himself in a green dell; and on
the grass beside him lay the dancer's iron.
"Oh!" cried Jack, "you have your fetter off!"
"For God's sake, don't tell your uncle!" cried the lad.
"If you fear my uncle," returned Jack "why do you not fear the
thunderbolt"?
"That is only an old wives' tale," said the other. "It is only
told to children. Scores of us come here among the woods and dance
for nights together, and are none the worse."
This put Jack in a thousand new thoughts. He was a grave lad; he
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: a week had elapsed since his capture and leaving. There was still
nearly a fortnight to wait for the ship bound toward Oriab, and
during that time he said what he could against the black galleys
and their infamous ways. Most of the townsfolk believed him; yet
so fond were the jewellers of great rubies that none would wholly
promise to cease trafficking with the wide-mouthed merchants.
If aught of evil ever befalls Dylath-Leen through such traffick,
it will not be his fault.
In about a week the desiderate ship
put in by the black wale and tall lighthouse, and Carter was glad
to see that she was a barque of wholesome men, with painted sides
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Chessmen of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: truth," he began. "I was left to guard this creature, who sat
upon a bench, shackled to the wall. I stood by the open doorway
at the opposite side of the chamber. He could not reach me, yet,
O-Tar, may Iss engulf me if he did not drag me to him helpless as
an unhatched egg. He dragged me to him, greatest of jeddaks, with
his eyes! With his eyes he seized upon my eyes and dragged me to
him and he made me lay my swords and dagger upon the table and
back off into a corner, and still keeping his eyes upon my eyes
his head quitted his body and crawling upon six short legs it
descended to the floor and backed part way into the hole of an
ulsio, but not so far that the eyes were not still upon me and
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