| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Whirligigs by O. Henry: "Brace up, old chap," he said. "The ambulance got
there just as I did. The doctor says he's dead. You
may have one more drink. You let me run this thing
for you. You've got to skip. I don't believe a chair
is legally a deadly weapon. You've got to make tracks,
that's all there is to it."
Merriam complained of the cold querulously, and
asked for another drink. "Did you notice what big
veins he had on the back of his hands?" he said. "I
never could stand -- I never could -- "
"Take one more," said Wade, "and then come on.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Maitre Cornelius by Honore de Balzac: and remembered how the grand provost Tristan and his rope were at the
orders of Maitre Cornelius.
"Have you supped?" asked the silversmith, in a tone which signified,
"You are not to sup."
The old maid trembled in spite of her brother's tone; she looked at
the new inmate as if to gauge the capacity of the stomach she might
have to fill, and said with a specious smile:--
"You have not stolen your name; your hair and moustache are as black
as the devil's tail."
"I have supped," he said.
"Well then," replied the miser, "you can come back and see me to-
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: effects on any markings which may exist, I saw no reason for extreme
wonder over the striated depression.
On January 6th, 1931, Lake,
Pabodie, Danforth, the other six students, and myself flew directly
over the south pole in two of the great planes, being forced down
once by a sudden high wind, which, fortunately, did not develop
into a typical storm. This was, as the papers have stated, one
of several observation flights, during others of which we tried
to discern new topographical features in areas unreached by previous
explorers. Our early flights were disappointing in this latter
respect, though they afforded us some magnificent examples of
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