| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Voyage to Abyssinia by Father Lobo: might satisfy them all, and distributed it amongst them; they bound
them about their heads, but gave me to understand that they should
have liked them better if they had been red: after this we were
seldom without their company, which gave occasion to an accident,
which though it seemed to threaten some danger at first, turned
afterwards to our advantage.
As these people were continually teasing us, our Portuguese one day
threatened in jest to kill one of them. The black ran in the utmost
dread to seek his comrades, and we were in one moment almost covered
with Galles; we thought it the most proper course to decline the
first impulse of their fury, and retired into our house. Our
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 2 by Alexis de Toqueville: a thousand special causes, of which I have only been able to
point out the most important - have singularly concurred to fix
the mind of the American upon purely practical objects. His
passions, his wants, his education, and everything about him seem
to unite in drawing the native of the United States earthward:
his religion alone bids him turn, from time to time, a transient
and distracted glance to heaven. Let us cease then to view all
democratic nations under the mask of the American people, and let
us attempt to survey them at length with their own proper
features.
It is possible to conceive a people not subdivided into any
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: a great stone which seemed to differ markedly from any we had
yet encountered. It was almost wholly covered, but I stooped and
cleared away the sand with my hands, later studying the object
carefully and supplementing the moonlight with my electric torch.
Unlike the other very large rocks, this one was perfectly square-cut,
with no convex or concave surface. It seemed, too, to be of a
dark basaltic substance, wholly dissimilar to the granite and
sandstone and occasional concrete of the now familiar fragments.
Suddenly I rose, turned, and ran for the camp at top speed.
It was a wholly unconscious and irrational flight, and only when
I was close to my tent did I fully realise why I had run. Then
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