| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Maid Marian by Thomas Love Peacock: "Then God have mercy on me," said young Gamwell; "and now, holy friar,
shrive my sinful soul."
The friar approached.
"Let me see this friar," said the sheriff: "if he be the friar
of the bridge, I had as lief have the devil in Nottingham;
but he shall find me too much for him here."
"The friar of the bridge," said Little John, "as you very
well know, sheriff, was father Michael of Rubygill Abbey,
and you may easily see that this is not the man."
"I see it," said the sheriff; "and God be thanked for his absence."
Young Gamwell stood at the foot of the ladder. The friar approached him,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: Not in the spaces we know, but between them, they walk serene
and primal, undimensioned and to us unseen. Yog-Sothoth knows
the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and
guardian of the gate. Past, present, future, all are one in Yog-Sothoth.
He knows where the Old Ones broke through of old, and where They
shall break through again. He knows where They had trod earth's
fields, and where They still tread them, and why no one can behold
Them as They tread. By Their smell can men sometimes know Them
near, but of Their semblance can no man know, saving only in the
features of those They have begotten on mankind; and of those
are there many sorts, differing in likeness from man's truest
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Dust by Mr. And Mrs. Haldeman-Julius: habitual reserve held her back. After all, she decided finally,
what did it matter? Meanwhile, financially, things were going
better than ever.
Martin had the most improved farm in the neighborhood; he was
looked up to by everyone as one of the most intelligent men in
the county, and his earnings were swelling, going into better
stock and the surplus into mortgages which he accumulated with
surprising rapidity. Occasionally, he would wonder why he was
working so hard, saving so assiduously and investing so
consistently. His growing fortune seemed to mean little now that
his affluence was thoroughly established. For whom was he
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