| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Baby Mine by Margaret Mayo: Jimmy could possibly escape from her vicinity she had wheeled
round in her chair, thrown her arms about him, and buried her
tear-stained face against his waist-coat.
"Good Lord!" exclaimed Jimmy, for the third time that morning, as
he glanced nervously toward the door; but Zoie was exclaiming in
her own way and sobbing louder and louder; furthermore she was
compelling Jimmy to listen to an exaggerated account of her many
disappointments in her unreasonable husband. Seeing no
possibility of escape, without resorting to physical violence,
Jimmy stood his ground, wondering what to expect next. He did
not have long to wonder.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Soul of the Far East by Percival Lowell: Jesuit.
So long as science was of the closet, its influence upon mankind
generally was indirect and slight; but so soon as it proceeded to
stalk into the street and earn its own living, its veracious
character began to tell. When out of its theories sprang inventions
and discoveries that revolutionized every-day affairs and changed
the very face of things, society insensibly caught its spirit.
Man awoke to the inestimable value of exactness. From scientists
proper, the spirit filtered down through every stratum of education,
till to-day the average man is born exact to a degree which his
forefathers never dreamed of becoming. To-day, as a rule, the more
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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: - before any known race of men could have existed - was none the
less awesome and potentially terrible in its implications of cosmic
abnormality. Though the thinness of the air at this prodigious
altitude made exertion somewhat more difficult than usual, both
Danforth and I found ourselves bearing up very well, and felt
equal to almost any task which might fall to our lot. It took
only a few steps to bring us to a shapeless ruin worn level with
the snow, while ten or fifteen rods farther on there was a huge,
roofless rampart still complete in its gigantic five-pointed outline
and rising to an irregular height of ten or eleven feet. For this
latter we headed; and when at last we were actually able to touch
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