| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Whirligigs by O. Henry: stem pipe. Late in the afternoon he got his weekly paper,
and read it until the twilight dimmed its lines. Then
he lit the tallow candle on his table, and read until the
moon rose, marking the time for supper. He lived in
the double log cabin on the slope near the girdled poplar.
Going home to supper he crossed a little branch darkened
by a laurel thicket. The dark figure of a man stepped
from the laurels and pointed a rifle at his breast. His
hat was pulled down low, and something covered most of
his face.
"I want yo' money," said the figure, "'thout any talk.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: inhabiting a very old quarter and teaching their sons the old
art of image-making which to this day they carry on. It was from
these children of the exiled hill-people that Carter had heard
the best tales about Ngranek when searching through Bahama's ancient
taverns.
All this time the great gaunt side of Ngranek was looming
up higher and higher as Carter approached it. There were sparse
trees on the lower slopes and feeble shrubs above them, and then
the bare hideous rock rose spectral into the sky, to mix with
frost and ice and eternal snow. Carter could see the rifts and
ruggedness of that sombre stone, and did not welcome the prospect
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Sanitary and Social Lectures by Charles Kingsley: The august shade would, doubtless, admire our railroads and
bridges, our cathedrals and our public parks, and much more of
which we need not be ashamed. But after awhile, I think, he would
look round, whether in London or in most of our great cities,
inquiringly and in vain, for one class of buildings, which in his
empire were wont to be almost as conspicuous and as splendid,
because, in public opinion, almost as necessary, as the basilicas
and temples: "And where," he would ask, "are your public baths?"
And if the minister of state who was his guide should answer: "Oh
great Caesar, I really do not know. I believe there are some
somewhere at the back of that ugly building which we call the
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