| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from House of Mirth by Edith Wharton: recognition. Lily was quite ready to gratify this curiosity, but
it happened that she was dining out. She determined, however, to
see Mrs. Trenor for a few moments, and ringing for her maid she
despatched a telegram to say that she would be with her friend
that evening at ten.
She was dining with Mrs. Fisher, who had gathered at an informal
feast a few of the performers of the previous evening. There was
to be plantation music in the studio after dinner-for Mrs.
Fisher, despairing of the republic, had taken up modelling, and
annexed to her small crowded house a spacious apartment, which,
whatever its uses in her hours of plastic inspiration, served at
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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: and did not mourn because those inquisitive Zoogs would escort
him no farther.
It was sunset now, so Carter stopped at an ancient
inn on a steep little street overlooking the lower town. And as
he went out on the balcony of his room and gazed down at the sea
of red tiled roofs and cobbled ways and the pleasant fields beyond,
all mellow and magical in the slanted light, he swore that Ulthar
would be a very likely place to dwell in always, were not the
memory of a greater sunset city ever goading one onward toward
unknown perils. Then twilight fell, and the pink walls of the
plastered gables turned violet and mystic, and little yellow lights
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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: unravel the mysteries of barren and unimportant worlds."
Rob listened to this with surprise and disappointment; but he
reflected that the Demon ought to know what he was talking about, so
he did not venture to contradict him.
"It is really astonishing," continued the Apparition, "how little you
people have learned about electricity. It is an Earth element that
has existed since the Earth itself was formed, and if you but
understood its proper use humanity would be marvelously benefited in
many ways."
"We are, already," protested Rob; "our discoveries in electricity have
enabled us to live much more conveniently."
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