| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia by Samuel Johnson: passenger. He observed to me that buildings are always best
preserved in places little frequented and difficult of access; for
when once a country declines from its primitive splendour, the more
inhabitants are left, the quicker ruin will be made. Walls supply
stones more easily than quarries; and palaces and temples will be
demolished to make stables of granite and cottages of porphyry.'"
CHAPTER XXXIX - THE ADVENTURES OF PEKUAH (CONTINUED).
"WE wandered about in this manner for some weeks, either, as our
chief pretended, for my gratification, or, as I rather suspected,
for some convenience of his own. I endeavoured to appear contented
where sullenness and resentment would have been of no use, and that
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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: Ngranek in all the taverns and public places where lava-gatherers
and image-makers meet, but could find no one who had been up the
higher slopes or seen the carven face. Ngranek was a hard mountain
with only an accursed valley behind it, and besides, one could
never depend on the certainty that night-gaunts are altogether
fabulous.
When the captain sailed hack to Dylath-Leen Carter
took quarters in an ancient tavern opening on an alley of steps
in the original part of the town, which is built of brick and
resembles the ruins of Yath's farther shore. Here he laid his
plans for the ascent of Ngranek, and correlated all that he had
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson: "That's no very bad, Mr. Stewart," said the rival, "but ye show a
poor device in your warblers."
"Me!" cried Alan, the blood starting to his face. "I give ye the
lie."
"Do ye own yourself beaten at the pipes, then," said Robin, "that
ye seek to change them for the sword?"
"And that's very well said, Mr. Macgregor," returned Alan; "and
in the meantime" (laying a strong accent on the word) "I take
back the lie. I appeal to Duncan."
"Indeed, ye need appeal to naebody," said Robin. "Ye're a far
better judge than any Maclaren in Balquhidder: for it's a God's
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