| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay: fell through, and his instrument was broken.
The Muspel-light vanished. The moon shone out again, but Maskull
could not see it. After that unearthly shining, he seemed to himself
to be in total blackness. The screaming wind ceased; there was a
dead silence. His thoughts finished flowing toward the lake, and his
foot no longer touched water, but hung in space.
He was too stunned by the suddenness of the change to either think or
feel. While he was still lying dazed, a vast explosion occurred in
the newly opened depths beneath the lakebed. The water in its
descent had met fire. Maskull was lifted bodily in the air, many
yards high, and came down heavily. He lost consciousness....
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Selected Writings of Guy De Maupassant by Guy De Maupassant: the moment of dissolution.
He was certain of that, as certain as one is of conscious life or
of taste when eating. Old Gaspard Hari had been dying for two
days and three nights somewhere, in some hole, in one of those
deep, untrodden ravines whose whiteness is more sinister than
subterranean darkness. He had been dying for two days and three
nights and he had just then died, thinking of his comrade. His
soul, almost before it was released, had taken its flight to the
inn where Ulrich was sleeping, and it had called him by that
terrible and mysterious power which the spirits of the dead
possess. That voiceless soul had cried to the worn-out soul of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde: Ernest, so it is a matter of some importance to us to know where
your brother Ernest is at present.
JACK. [Slowly and hesitatingly.] Gwendolen - Cecily - it is very
painful for me to be forced to speak the truth. It is the first
time in my life that I have ever been reduced to such a painful
position, and I am really quite inexperienced in doing anything of
the kind. However, I will tell you quite frankly that I have no
brother Ernest. I have no brother at all. I never had a brother
in my life, and I certainly have not the smallest intention of ever
having one in the future.
CECILY. [Surprised.] No brother at all?
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