| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mountains by Stewart Edward White: leveled it, covered a good half acre of ground. This
would never do.
"Hold on!" I interrupted sharply.
He lowered his weapon to stare at me wild-eyed.
"What is it?" he gasped.
"Stop a minute!" I commanded. "Now take
three deep breaths."
He did so.
"Now shoot," I advised, "and aim at his knees."
The deer was now on his feet and facing us, so
the Tenderfoot had the entire length of the animal
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: Michael took Nadia's hand. "Are you asleep, sister?"
"No, brother."
"Be ready for anything; here comes the storm!"
"I am ready."
Michael Strogoff had only just time to draw the leathern
curtains, when the storm was upon them.
The iemschik leapt from his seat and seized the horses'
heads, for terrible danger threatened the whole party.
The tarantass was at a standstill at a turning of the
road, down which swept the hurricane; it was absolutely
necessary to hold the animals' heads to the wind, for if the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: specific instance. The tremendous significance lies in what we
dared not tell; what I would not tell now but for the need of
warning others off from nameless terrors.
It is a fact that
the wind had brought dreadful havoc. Whether all could have lived
through it, even without the other thing, is gravely open to doubt.
The storm, with its fury of madly driven ice particles, must have
been beyond anything our expedition had encountered before. One
aeroplane shelter-wall, it seems, had been left in a far too flimsy
and inadequate state - was nearly pulverized - and the derrick
at the distant boring was entirely shaken to pieces. The exposed
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