| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: solution had truly accomplished, at least temporarily, its full
mission of restoring rational and articulate life to the dead.
But in that triumph there came to me the greatest of all horrors
-- not horror of the thing that spoke, but of the deed that I
had witnessed and of the man with whom my professional fortunes
were joined.
For that very fresh body, at last writhing into
full and terrifying consciousness with eyes dilated at the memory
of its last scene on earth, threw out its frantic hands in a life
and death struggle with the air, and suddenly collapsing into
a second and final dissolution from which there could be no return,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from An Inland Voyage by Robert Louis Stevenson: interesting as a forest in detail. The height of spires cannot be
taken by trigonometry; they measure absurdly short, but how tall
they are to the admiring eye! And where we have so many elegant
proportions, growing one out of the other, and all together into
one, it seems as if proportion transcended itself, and became
something different and more imposing. I could never fathom how a
man dares to lift up his voice to preach in a cathedral. What is
he to say that will not be an anti-climax? For though I have heard
a considerable variety of sermons, I never yet heard one that was
so expressive as a cathedral. 'Tis the best preacher itself, and
preaches day and night; not only telling you of man's art and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells: I said, "ever so many years ago. It was some place near Locarno,
and we looked down the lake that shone weltering--just as now we
look over the sea. And then we dreamt in an indistinct featureless
way of all that you and I are doing now."
"I!" said Isabel, and laughed.
"Well, of some such thing," I said, and remained for awhile silent,
thinking of Locarno.
I recalled once more the largeness, the release from small personal
things that I had felt in my youth; statecraft became real and
wonderful again with the memory, the gigantic handling of gigantic
problems. I began to talk out my thoughts, sitting up beside her,
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