| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: fur, roughly resembled the hind legs of prehistoric earth's giant
saurians, and terminated in ridgy-veined pads that were neither
hooves nor claws. When the thing breathed, its tail and tentacles
rhythmically changed colour, as if from some circulatory cause
normal to the non-human greenish tinge, whilst in the tail it
was manifest as a yellowish appearance which alternated with a
sickly grayish-white in the spaces between the purple rings. Of
genuine blood there was none; only the foetid greenish-yellow
ichor which trickled along the painted floor beyond the radius
of the stickiness, and left a curious discoloration behind it.
As the presence of the three men seemed to rouse the dying thing,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Little Rivers by Henry van Dyke: three of the inlets of the Patapedia, and at last, in the still,
deep water below, after we had laboured with him for half an hour,
and brought him near enough to see that he was immense, he calmly
opened his mouth and the fly came back to me void. That was a sad
evening, in which all the consolations of philosophy were needed.
Sunday was a very peaceful day in our camp. In the Dominion of
Canada, the question "to fish or not to fish" on the first day of
the week is not left to the frailty of the individual conscience.
The law on the subject is quite explicit, and says that between six
o'clock on Saturday evening and six o'clock on Monday morning all
nets shall be taken up and no one shall wet a line. The
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Altar of the Dead by Henry James: He looked round the room once more, knowing how little he was sure
it would do. He felt also stricken and more and more cold, and his
chill was like an ague in which he had to make an effort not to
shake. Then he made doleful reply: "I must try on my side - if
you can't try on yours." She came out with him to the hall and
into the doorway, and here he put her the question he held he could
least answer from his own wit. "Why have you never let me come
before?"
"Because my aunt would have seen you, and I should have had to tell
her how I came to know you."
"And what would have been the objection to that?"
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