| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: upper storey. This chamber he lined with tall, firm shelving,
along which he began gradually to arrange, in apparently careful
order, all the rotting ancient books and parts of books which
during his own day had been heaped promiscuously in odd corners
of the various rooms.
'I made some use of 'em,' he would say
as he tried to mend a torn black-letter page with paste prepared
on the rusty kitchen stove, 'but the boy's fitten to make better
use of 'em. He'd orter hev 'em as well so as he kin, for they're
goin' to be all of his larnin'.'
When Wilbur was a year and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Charmides by Plato: in this way, or doing things of this sort?
Clearly not.
Then, as I was just now saying, he who declared that temperance is a man
doing his own business had another and a hidden meaning; for I do not think
that he could have been such a fool as to mean this. Was he a fool who
told you, Charmides?
Nay, he replied, I certainly thought him a very wise man.
Then I am quite certain that he put forth his definition as a riddle,
thinking that no one would know the meaning of the words 'doing his own
business.'
I dare say, he replied.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Master Key by L. Frank Baum: the machine, for his progress, instead of being swift as a bird's
flight, became slow and jerky, nor was he sure that the damaged
machine might not break down altogether at any moment. Yet so far his
progress was in the right direction, and he resolved to experiment no
further with the instrument, but to let it go as it would, so long as
it supported him above the water. However irregular the motion might
be, it was sure, if continued, to bring him to land in time, and that
was all he cared about just then.
When night fell his slumber was broken and uneasy, for he wakened more
than once with a start of fear that the machine had broken and he was
falling into the sea. Sometimes he was carried along at a swift pace,
The Master Key |
