| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Historical Lecturers and Essays by Charles Kingsley: which, once made, is intelligible, as far as any phenomenon is
intelligible, to the merest peasant, was reserved for another
century, and for one of those Englishmen on whom Vesalius would have
looked as semi-barbarians.
To make a long story short: three years after the publication of
his famous book, "De Corporis Humani Fabrica," he left Venice to
cure Charles V., at Regensburg, and became one of the great
Emperor's physicians.
This was the crisis of Vesalius's life. The medicine with which he
had worked the cure was China--Sarsaparilla, as we call it now--
brought home from the then newly-discovered banks of the Paraguay
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton: overruled all scruples and hesitations, and sent him
hurrying through the red corridors to the farther side
of the house.
As he entered the box his eyes met Miss Welland's,
and he saw that she had instantly understood his motive,
though the family dignity which both considered
so high a virtue would not permit her to tell him so.
The persons of their world lived in an atmosphere of
faint implications and pale delicacies, and the fact that
he and she understood each other without a word
seemed to the young man to bring them nearer than
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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: circle of stones, since he did not care to speak with Zoogs just
now; but it appeared from the singular fluttering in that huge
tree that important councils were in session elsewhere. Upon drawing
nearer he made out the accents of a tense and heated discussion;
and before long became conscious of matters which he viewed with
the greatest concern. For a war on the cats was under debate in
that sovereign assembly of Zoogs. It all came from the loss of
the party which had sneaked after Carter to Ulthar, and which
the cats had justly punished for unsuitable intentions. The matter
had long rankled; and now, or at least within a month, the marshalled
Zoogs were about to strike the whole feline tribe in a series
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