| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft: the professor carried in his pocket. Then, indeed, I succeeded
in opening it, but when I did so seemed only to be confronted
by a greater and more closely locked barrier. For what could be
the meaning of the queer clay bas-relief and the disjointed jottings,
ramblings, and cuttings which I found? Had my uncle, in his latter
years become credulous of the most superficial impostures? I resolved
to search out the eccentric sculptor responsible for this apparent
disturbance of an old man's peace of mind.
The bas-relief was
a rough rectangle less than an inch thick and about five by six
inches in area; obviously of modern origin. Its designs, however,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Phaedo by Plato: connected with the doctrine of ideas. In the Meno the theory of ideas is
based on the ancient belief in transmigration, which reappears again in the
Phaedrus as well as in the Republic and Timaeus, and in all of them is
connected with a doctrine of retribution. In the Phaedrus the immortality
of the soul is supposed to rest on the conception of the soul as a
principle of motion, whereas in the Republic the argument turns on the
natural continuance of the soul, which, if not destroyed by her own proper
evil, can hardly be destroyed by any other. The soul of man in the Timaeus
is derived from the Supreme Creator, and either returns after death to her
kindred star, or descends into the lower life of an animal. The Apology
expresses the same view as the Phaedo, but with less confidence; there the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: waited in growing impatience and nervousness, wondering
why the Arab did not come to claim his reward.
Presently he saw the muzzle of a rifle appear suddenly
and mysteriously a few inches above the pouch, and
before he could realize the cunning trick that the Arab
had played upon him the sight of the weapon was
adroitly hooked into the rawhide thong which formed the
carrying strap of the pouch, and the latter was drawn
quickly from his view into the dense foliage at the
trail's side.
Not for an instant had the raider exposed a square inch
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