| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: forward way was about to cease. We had been all too correct in
our pessimistic guess about that rift glimpsed from the air. Our
tunnel quest was a blind one, and we were not even going to be
able to reach the basement out of which the abyssward aperture
opened.
The torch, flashing over the grotesquely carved walls
of the blocked corridor in which we stood, showed several doorways
in various states of obstruction; and from one of them the gasoline
odor-quite submerging that other hint of odor - came with especial
distinctness. As we looked more steadily, we saw that beyond a
doubt there had been a slight and recent clearing away of debris
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Battle of the Books by Jonathan Swift: Resolved my annual verse to pay,
By duty bound, on Stella's day;
Furnished with paper, pens, and ink,
I gravely sat me down to think:
I bit my nails, and scratched my head,
But found my wit and fancy fled;
Or, if with more than usual pain,
A thought came slowly from my brain,
It cost me Lord knows how much time
To shape it into sense and rhyme;
And, what was yet a greater curse,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Apology by Plato: philosophy, exhorting any one whom I meet and saying to him after my
manner: You, my friend,--a citizen of the great and mighty and wise city
of Athens,--are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money
and honour and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and
the greatest improvement of the soul, which you never regard or heed at
all? And if the person with whom I am arguing, says: Yes, but I do care;
then I do not leave him or let him go at once; but I proceed to interrogate
and examine and cross-examine him, and if I think that he has no virtue in
him, but only says that he has, I reproach him with undervaluing the
greater, and overvaluing the less. And I shall repeat the same words to
every one whom I meet, young and old, citizen and alien, but especially to
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