| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert: leathern strings.
Hamilcar, curious about these domestic details, listened to him and
grew calm with the monotony of the tones in which the figures were
enumerated. Abdalonim became slower. Suddenly he let the wooden sheets
fall to the ground and threw himself flat on his face with his arms
stretched out in the position of a condemned criminal. Hamilcar picked
up the tablets without any emotion; and his lips parted and his eyes
grew larger when he perceived an exorbitant consumption of meat, fish,
birds, wines, and aromatics, with broken vases, dead slaves, and
spoiled carpets set down as the expense of a single day.
Abdalonim, still prostrate, told him of the feast of the Barbarians.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tom Grogan by F. Hopkinson Smith: orders were always acknowledged, but the man himself might have
passed unnoticed within three feet of him. This is not unusual
where the work of a contractor lies in scattered places, and he
must often depend on strangers in the several localities.
As he hurried over the road he recalled the face of Grogan's
foreman, a big blond Swede, and that of Grogan's daughter, a
slender fair-haired girl, who once came to the office for her
father's pay; but all efforts at reviving the lineaments of Grogan
failed.
With this fact clear in his mind, he felt a tinge of
disappointment. It would have relieved his temper to unload a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: Gate of the Caravans the road lay straight betwixt tilled fields,
with many odd farmhouses crowned by low domes. At some of these
houses the seeker stopped to ask questions; once finding a host
so austere and reticent, and so full of an unplaced majesty like
to that in the huge features on Ngranek, that he felt certain
he had come at last upon one of the Great Ones themselves, or
upon one with full nine-tenths of their blood, dwelling amongst
men. And to that austere and reticent cotter he was careful to
speak very well of the gods, and to praise all the blessings they
had ever accorded him.
That night Carter camped in a roadside
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath |
