| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: or curious explanations. But most of them, unless lean or ill-favoured,
were unclothed and packed in crates and drawn off in lumbering
lorries by fabulous things. Occasionally other beings were unloaded
and crated; some very like these semi-humans, some not so similar,
and some not similar at all. And he wondered if any of the poor
stout black men of Parg were left to be unloaded and crated and
shipped inland in those obnoxious drays.
When the galley landed
at a greasy-looking quay of spongy rock a nightmare horde of toad-things
wiggled out of the hatches, and two of them seized Carter and
dragged him ashore. The smell and aspect of that city are beyond
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Reminiscences of Tolstoy by Leo Tolstoy: "Is that you, Ilyá?"
"Yes, it's I."
"Are you alone? Shut the door. There's no one to hear us,
and we can't see each other, so we shall not feel ashamed. Tell
me, did you ever have anything to do with women?"
When I said no, I suddenly heard him break out sobbing, like
a little child.
I sobbed and cried, too, and for a long time we stayed weeping
tears of joy, with the screen between us, and we were neither of us
ashamed, but both so joyful that I look on that moment as one of
the happiest in my whole life.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: had never crossed the threshold, she had frequently observed
his beautiful pictures through the door. On entering the
dining-room, the sight of a bottle and two glasses prepared
her to be a gentle critic; and as soon as the pictures had
been viewed and praised, she was easily persuaded to join the
painter in a single glass. 'Here,' she said, 'are my
respects; and a pleasure it is, in this horrible house, to
see a gentleman like yourself, so affable and free, and a
very nice painter, I am sure.' One glass so agreeably
prefaced, was sure to lead to the acceptance of a second; at
the third, Somerset was free to cease from the affectation of
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