| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Works of Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson: examine, nor are qualified to examine, the motives
of their own practice, or to state the nice limits
between elegance and ostentation. They are often
innocent of the pain which their vanity produces,
and insult others when they have no worse purpose
than to please themselves.
He that too much refines his delicacy will always
endanger his quiet. Of those with whom nature
and virtue oblige us to converse, some are ignorant
of the art of pleasing, and offend when they design
to caress; some are negligent, and gratify themselves
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Faith of Men by Jack London: Bill and Kink did not hear him, and he was compelled to repeat his
query. They appeared reluctant. He grew keener. And he swayed
back and forward, holding on to the bar and listened with all his
ears while they conferred together on one side, and wrangled as to
whether they should or not, and disagreed in stage whispers over
the price they should set.
"Two hundred and--hic!--fifty," Bill finally announced, "but we
reckon as we won't sell."
"Which is monstrous wise if I might chip in my little say,"
seconded Bidwell.
"Yes, indeedy," added Kink. "We ain't in no charity business a-
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: steeds falter, bred as they were in earth's blackest crypts, and
seeing not with any eyes, but with the whole dank surface of their
slippery forms. On and on they flew, past winds of dubious scent
and sounds of dubious import; ever in thickest darkness, and covering
such prodigious spaces that Carter wondered whether or not they
could still be within earth's dreamland.
Then suddenly the clouds
thinned and the stars shone spectrally above. All below was still
black, but those pallid beacons in the sky seemed alive with a
meaning and directiveness they had never possessed elsewhere.
It was not that the figures of the constellations were different,
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