| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: somehow connected with thought - I concluded that their intelligence
was enormously greater than man's.
Aftenvard I saw them everywhere;
swarming in all the great chambers and corridors, tending monstrous
machines in vaulted crypts, and racing along the vast roads in
gigantic, boat-shaped cars. I ceased to be afraid of them, for
they seemed to form supremely natural parts of their environment.
Individual differences amongst them began to be manifest, and
a few appeared to be under some kind of restraint. These latter,
though shewing no physical variation, had a diversity of gestures
and habits which marked them off not only from the majority, but
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A House of Pomegranates by Oscar Wilde: accursed be all they who traffic with them. And as for him who for
love's sake forsook God, and so lieth here with his leman slain by
God's judgment, take up his body and the body of his leman, and
bury them in the corner of the Field of the Fullers, and set no
mark above them, nor sign of any kind, that none may know the place
of their resting. For accursed were they in their lives, and
accursed shall they be in their deaths also.'
And the people did as he commanded them, and in the corner of the
Field of the Fullers, where no sweet herbs grew, they dug a deep
pit, and laid the dead things within it.
And when the third year was over, and on a day that was a holy day,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Last War: A World Set Free by H. G. Wells: 'Nothing can be done.'
'But, Monsieur, it is extraordinarily inconvenient, this living
in exile and waiting. My wife and my little boy suffer
extremely. There is a lack of amenity. And the season advances.
I say nothing of the expense and difficulty in obtaining
provisions. . . . When does Monsieur think that something will be
done to render Paris--possible?'
Barnet considered his interlocutor.
'I'm told,' said Barnet, 'that Paris is not likely to be possible
again for several generations.'
'Oh! but this is preposterous! Consider, Monsieur! What are
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