| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: contract and then relax again at sight of it; and she thought
that she knew why, for the sprawling, gross black characters
of the address were easily distinguishable from the fine
writing on the former letter that had so much disturbed him.
He opened it and began to read; while the ostler sat down to
table with a pot of ale, and proceeded to make himself
agreeable after his fashion.
'Fine doings down our way, Miss Nance,' said he. 'I haven't
been abed this blessed night.'
Nance expressed a polite interest, but her eye was on Mr.
Archer, who was reading his letter with a face of such
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Poems by T. S. Eliot: Rust that clings to the form that the strength has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which flattens itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter."
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and pocketed a toy that was running along
the quay.
I could see nothing behind that child's eye.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: the special state now observable. Imagination could conceive almost
anything in connection with this place.
VI
It would be cumbrous
to give a detailed, consecutive account of our wanderings inside
that cavernous, aeon-dead honeycomb of primal masonry - that monstrous
lair of elder secrets which now echoed for the first time, after
uncounted epochs, to the tread of human feet. This is especially
true because so much of the horrible drama and revelation came
from a mere study of the omnipresent mural carvings. Our flashlight
photographs of those carvings will do much toward proving the
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