| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Touchstone by Edith Wharton: illegible." He wandered to the other end of the room and then
turned and stood before her. "I've been thinking of writing to
Flamel," he said.
She looked up.
"There's one point," he continued, slowly, "that I ought to clear
up. I told him you'd known about the letters all along; for a
long time, at least; and I saw it hurt him horribly. It was just
what I meant to do, of course; but I can't leave him to that false
impression; I must write him."
She received this without outward movement, but he saw that the
depths were stirred. At length she returned, in a hesitating
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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: He was now
on a dim-litten plain whose sole topographical features were great
boulders and the entrances of burrows. The ghouls were in general
respectful, even if one did attempt to pinch him while several
others eyed his leanness speculatively. Through patient glibbering
he made inquiries regarding his vanished friend, and found he
had become a ghoul of some prominence in abysses nearer the waking
world. A greenish elderly ghoul offered to conduct him to Pickman's
present habitation, so despite a natural loathing he followed
the creature into a capacious burrow and crawled after him for
hours in the blackness of rank mould. They emerged on a dim plain
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac: completely ignorant of the proceedings now related, which it
blames and disavows in the most conclusive manner.
/M. de Sallenauve/.--After the formal declaration which I have had
the good fortune to evoke it would ill become me, gentlemen, to
insist on tracing the responsibility for this intrigue back to the
government. But what I have already said will seem to you natural
when you remember that, as I entered this hall, the minister of
Public Works was in the tribune, taking part, in a most unusual
manner, in a discussion on discipline wholly outside of his
department, and endeavoring to persuade you that I had conducted
myself towards this honorable body with a total want of reverence.
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