| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Vailima Letters by Robert Louis Stevenson: latterly two; we had cooked all day long, a cold dinner, and
lo! at two our guests began to arrive, though dinner was not
till six; they were sixteen, and fifteen slept the night and
breakfasted. Conceive, then, how unwillingly we climb on our
horses and start off in the hottest part of the afternoon to
ride 4 and a half miles, attend a native feast in the gaol,
and ride four and a half miles back. But there is no help
for it. I am a sort of father of the political prisoners,
and have CHARGE D'AMES in that riotously absurd
establishment, Apia Gaol. The twenty-three (I think it is)
chiefs act as under gaolers. The other day they told the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Poems of Goethe, Bowring, Tr. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: What's this thou singest so falsely, forsooth,
Of love and a maiden's silent truth?
Who'll trust to such a story!
GIPSY.
I sing of a maid's repentant fears,
And long and bitter yearning;
Her levity's changed to truth and tears
All-burning.
She dreads no more the threats of her mother,
She dreads far less the blows of her brother,
Than the dearly loved-one's hatred.
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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: heads. Of other and incomprehensible senses - not, however, well
utilizable by alien captive minds inhabiting their bodies - they
possessed many. Their three eyes were so situated as to give them
a range of vision wider than the normal. Their blood was a sort
of deep-greenish ichor of great thickness.
They had no sex,
but reproduced through seeds or spores which clustered on their
bases and could be developed only under water. Great, shallow
tanks were used for the growth of their young - which were, however,
reared only in small numbers on account of the longevity of individuals
- four or five thousand years being the common life span.
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