| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tattine by Ruth Ogden [Mrs. Charles W. Ide]: "Now, Mamma," she asked excitedly, "did you know that Betsy or Doctor would do
such a thing as this?"
The trembling little rabbit in Tattine's hands showed what was meant by THIS.
Mrs. Gerald paused a moment, then she said reluctantly, "Yes, Tattine, I did."
"Have they done it before, Mamma?"
"I am sorry to say they have."
"Have you seen them bring struggling rabbits dangling in their mouths right up
to the house here, Mamma?"
Mrs. Gerald merely shook her head. She felt so sorry to have to own to such a
sight.
"Why did I never know it, Mamma?"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Ruling Passion by Henry van Dyke: the bow of the canoe, the persistent patter of the rain all around
us, and the SLISH, SLISH of the paddle with which Ferdinand, my
Canadian voyageur, was pushing the birch-bark down the lonely length
of Lac Moise. I knew that there was one of his stories on the way.
But I must keep still to get it. A single ill-advised comment, a
word that would raise a question of morals or social philosophy,
might switch the narrative off the track into a swamp of abstract
discourse in which Ferdinand would lose himself. Presently the
voice behind me began again.
"But that word VAILLANT, m'sieu'; with us in Canada it does not mean
always the same as with you. Sometimes we use it for something that
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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: anything more definite than rock and ooze and weed was seen. Each
would have fled had he not feared the scorn of the others, and
it was only half-heartedly that they searched - vainly, as it
proved - for some portable souvenir to bear away.
It was Rodriguez
the Portuguese who climbed up the foot of the monolith and shouted
of what he had found. The rest followed him, and looked curiously
at the immense carved door with the now familiar squid-dragon
bas-relief. It was, Johansen said, like a great barn-door; and
they all felt that it was a door because of the ornate lintel,
threshold, and jambs around it, though they could not decide whether
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