| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft: widened every second as the Alert gained impetus from its mounting
steam.
That was all. After that Johansen only brooded over the
idol in the cabin and attended to a few matters of food for himself
and the laughing maniac by his side. He did not try to navigate
after the first bold flight, for the reaction had taken something
out of his soul. Then came the storm of April 2nd, and a gathering
of the clouds about his consciousness. There is a sense of spectral
whirling through liquid gulfs of infinity, of dizzying rides through
reeling universes on a comets tail, and of hysterical plunges
from the pit to the moon and from the moon back again to the pit,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: without a fight. You may depend on that."
"Here, too," nodded her foreman. "I'm with my boss clear down the
line. And as soon as she lets me turn loose my six-gun, you'll
hear it pop, seh."
"I have not a doubt of it, Mr. McWilliams," returned the sheepman
blithely. "In the meantime I was going to say that though most of
my interests are in sheep instead of cattle--"
"I thought most of your interests were in other people's
property," interrupted the young woman.
"It goes into sheep ultimately," he smiled. "Now, what I am
trying to get at is this: I'm in debt to you a heap, Miss
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells: the beautiful lady was not seeing anything of this. And he could
explain afterwards to his friends that the Englishman was clearly a
lunatic, deserving pity rather than punishment. He made some sound
of protest, but attempted no delay in refunding the money Benham had
prepaid. Outside sounded the wheels of the returning carriage.
They stopped. Amanda appeared in the doorway and discovered Benham
dominant.
He was a little short of breath, and as she came in he was
addressing the landlord with much earnestness in the following
compact sentences.
"Attendez! Ecco! Adesso noi andiamo con questa cattivissimo
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