| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: and laid him on the damp grass. Henry Wheeler, trembling, turned
the rescued telescope on the mountain to see what he might. Through
the lenses were discernible three tiny figures, apparently running
towards the summit as fast as the steep incline allowed. Only
these - nothing more. Then everyone noticed a strangely unseasonable
noise in the deep valley behind, and even in the underbrush of
Sentinel Hill itself. It was the piping of unnumbered whippoorwills,
and in their shrill chorus there seemed to lurk a note of tense
and evil expectancy.
Earl Sawyer now took the telescope and
reported the three figures as standing on the topmost ridge, virtually
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Ball at Sceaux by Honore de Balzac: piquet with the Bishop of Persepolis, her agitation was not observed;
she turned her head and saw her former lover come in, in all the
freshness of youth. His father's death, and then that of his brother,
killed by the severe climate of Saint-Petersburg, had placed on
Maximilien's head the hereditary plumes of the French peer's hat. His
fortune matched his learning and his merits; only the day before his
youthful and fervid eloquence had dazzled the Assembly. At this moment
he stood before the Countess, free, and graced with all the advantages
she had formerly required of her ideal. Every mother with a daughter
to marry made amiable advances to a man gifted with the virtues which
they attributed to him, as they admired his attractive person; but
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Was the gentle Chibiabos,
He the best of all musicians,
He the sweetest of all singers;
For his gentleness he loved him,
And the magic of his singing.
Dear, too, unto Hiawatha
Was the very strong man, Kwasind,
He the strongest of all mortals,
He the mightiest among many;
For his very strength he loved him,
For his strength allied to goodness.
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