| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield: somehow, to celebrate the fact that they could do what they liked now.
There was no man to disturb them; the whole perfect day was theirs.
"No, thank you, child," said old Mrs. Fairfield, but the way at that moment
she tossed the boy up and said "a-goos-a-goos-a-ga!" to him meant that she
felt the same. The little girls ran into the paddock like chickens let out
of a coop.
Even Alice, the servant-girl, washing up the dishes in the kitchen, caught
the infection and used the precious tank water in a perfectly reckless
fashion.
"Oh, these men!" said she, and she plunged the teapot into the bowl and
held it under the water even after it had stopped bubbling, as if it too
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Complete Poems of Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Christ bring us at last to his felicity!
Pax vobiscum! et Benedicite!
IN THE CATHEDRAL
CHANT.
Kyrie Eleison
Christe Eleison!
ELSIE.
I am at home here in my Father's house!
These paintings of the Saints upon the walls
Have all familiar and benignant faces.
PRINCE HENRY.
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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: are older than brooding Tyre, or the contemplative Sphinx, or
garden-girdled Babylon."
It was then that he began that rambling
tale which suddenly played upon a sleeping memory and won the
fevered interest of my uncle. There had been a slight earthquake
tremor the night before, the most considerable felt in New England
for some years; and Wilcox's imagination had been keenly affected.
Upon retiring, he had had an unprecedented dream of great Cyclopean
cities of Titan blocks and sky-flung monoliths, all dripping with
green ooze and sinister with latent horror. Hieroglyphics had
covered the walls and pillars, and from some undetermined point
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