| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: course is a solid rock of sand. On the top of that is a cap of
gravel, five, six, ten feet thick. Now the sand was laid down
there by water at the bottom of an old sea; and therefore the top
of it would naturally be flat and smooth, as the sands at
Hunstanton or at Bournemouth are; and the gravel, if it was laid
down by water, would naturally lie flat on it again: but it does
not. See how the top of the sand is dug out into deep waves and
pits, filled up with gravel. And see, too, how over some of the
gravel you get sand again, and then gravel again, and then sand
again, till you cannot tell where one fairly begins and the other
ends. Why, here are little dots of gravel, six or eight feet
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tom Sawyer, Detective by Mark Twain: he's got me like a rat in a trap. All he's got to do is
to have me watched, and wait--wait till I slip ashore,
thinking he is a thousand miles away, then slip after
me and dog me to a good place and make me give up
the di'monds, and then he'll--oh, I know what he'll
do! Ain't it awful--awful! And now to think the OTHER
one's aboard, too! Oh, ain't it hard luck, boys--ain't it
hard! But you'll help save me, WON'T you?--oh, boys,
be good to a poor devil that's being hunted to death,
and save me--I'll worship the very ground you walk on!"
We turned in and soothed him down and told him we would
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: of the laboratory. The shell had been merciful, in a way -- but
West could never feel as certain as he wished, that we two were
the only survivors. He used to make shuddering conjectures about
the possible actions of a headless physician with the power of
reanimating the dead.
West’s last quarters were in a venerable
house of much elegance, overlooking one of the oldest burying-grounds
in Boston. He had chosen the place for purely symbolic and fantastically
aesthetic reasons, since most of the interments were of the colonial
period and therefore of little use to a scientist seeking very
fresh bodies. The laboratory was in a sub-cellar secretly constructed
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