| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley: "and he looks so kind and quiet. But why should the lady have such
a sad picture as that in her room? Perhaps it was some kinsman of
hers, who had been murdered by the savages in foreign parts, and
she kept it there for a remembrance." And Tom felt sad, and awed,
and turned to look at something else.
The next thing he saw, and that too puzzled him, was a washing-
stand, with ewers and basins, and soap and brushes, and towels, and
a large bath full of clean water - what a heap of things all for
washing! "She must be a very dirty lady," thought Tom, "by my
master's rule, to want as much scrubbing as all that. But she must
be very cunning to put the dirt out of the way so well afterwards,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Man against the Sky by Edwin Arlington Robinson: Was partly an unholy guile.
"That I have paid for being calm
Is what you see, if you have eyes;
For let a man be calm too long,
He pays for much before he dies.
"Be calm when you are growing old
And you have nothing else to do;
Pour not the wine of life too thin
If water means the death of you.
"You say I might have learned at home
The truth in season to be strong?
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft: scattered cases of uneasy but formless nocturnal impressions appear
here and there, always between March 23 and and April 2 - the
period of young Wilcox's delirium. Scientific men were little
more affected, though four cases of vague description suggest
fugitive glimpses of strange landscapes, and in one case there
is mentioned a dread of something abnormal.
It was from the
artists and poets that the pertinent answers came, and I know
that panic would have broken loose had they been able to compare
notes. As it was, lacking their original letters, I half suspected
the compiler of having asked leading questions, or of having edited
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