| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Altar of the Dead by Henry James: believed, that his difficulty lay in the fact that the very nature
of the plea for his faithless friend constituted a prohibition;
that it happened to have come from HER was precisely the vice that
attached to it. To the voice of impersonal generosity he felt sure
he would have listened; he would have deferred to an advocate who,
speaking from abstract justice, knowing of his denial without
having known Hague, should have had the imagination to say: "Ah,
remember only the best of him; pity him; provide for him." To
provide for him on the very ground of having discovered another of
his turpitudes was not to pity but to glorify him. The more
Stransom thought the more he made out that whatever this relation
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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: grown nearly perpendicular, and was perilous with loose black
gravel and small stones. Eventually Carter dismounted and led
his dubious yak; pulling very hard when the animal balked or stumbled,
and keeping his own footing as best he might. Then suddenly he
came to the top and saw beyond, and gasped at what he saw.
The
path indeed led straight ahead and slightly down, with the same
lines of high natural walls as before; but on the left hand there
opened out a monstrous space, vast acres in extent, where some
archaic power had riven and rent the native cliffs of onyx in
the form of a giant's quarry. Far back into the solid precipice
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from 1492 by Mary Johntson: of all the faculties. Juan de la Cosa took care of the _Cordera_.
So we sighted Isabella and in the harbor four caravels
that had not been there when we had sailed in April.
CHAPTER XXXII
TWO men came into the cabin, Don Diego Colon, left
in charge of Hispaniola, and with him a tall, powerful,
high-featured man, gray of eye and black and silver
of hair and short beard. As he stood beside the bed, one
saw that he must be kinsman to the man who lay upon it.
``O Bartholomew! And is this the end?'' cried Don Diego,
and I knew that the stranger was that brother, Bartholomew,
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