| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft: matters mentioned by the professor.
II. The Tale of Inspector
Legrasse.
The older matters which had made the sculptor's dream
and bas-relief so significant to my uncle formed the subject of
the second half of his long manuscript. Once before, it appears,
Professor Angell had seen the hellish outlines of the nameless
monstrosity, puzzled over the unknown hieroglyphics, and heard
the ominous syllables which can be rendered only as "Cthulhu";
and all this in so stirring and horrible a connexion that it is
small wonder he pursued young Wilcox with queries and demands
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Charmides by Plato: casual statement found in the Parmenides to other statements which occur in
the Philebus. Much more truly is his own manner described by himself when
he says that 'words are more plastic than wax' (Rep.), and 'whither the
wind blows, the argument follows'. The dialogues of Plato are like poems,
isolated and separate works, except where they are indicated by the author
himself to have an intentional sequence.
It is this method of taking passages out of their context and placing them
in a new connexion when they seem to confirm a preconceived theory, which
is the defect of Dr. Jackson's procedure. It may be compared, though not
wholly the same with it, to that method which the Fathers practised,
sometimes called 'the mystical interpretation of Scripture,' in which
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart: What all-powerful reason made Louise determine to marry Doctor
Walker?
The examiners were still working on the books of the Traders'
Bank, and it was probable that several weeks would elapse before
everything was cleared up. The firm of expert accountants who
had examined the books some two months before testified that
every bond, every piece of valuable paper, was there at that
time. It had been shortly after their examination that the
president, who had been in bad health, had gone to California.
Mr. Bailey was still ill at the Knickerbocker, and in this, as in
other ways, Gertrude's conduct puzzled me. She seemed
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