| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: weak again? No!
Night came and he settled himself in an ample tree to rest
until morning; but sleep would not come. Instead came the
vision of a white girl being beaten by black women, and again
of the same girl at the mercy of the warriors somewhere in
that dark and forbidding jungle.
With a growl of anger and self-contempt Tarzan arose,
shook himself, and swung from his tree to that adjoining, and
thus, through the lower terraces, he followed the trail that
Usanga's party had taken earlier in the afternoon. He had
little difficulty as the band had followed a well-beaten path
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Aspern Papers by Henry James: "Orpheus and the Maenads!" was the exclamation that rose to my
lips when I first turned over his correspondence. Almost all
the Maenads were unreasonable, and many of them insupportable;
it struck me in short that he was kinder, more considerate than,
in his place (if I could imagine myself in such a place!)
I should have been.
It was certainly strange beyond all strangeness, and I shall not
take up space with attempting to explain it, that whereas in all
these other lines of research we had to deal with phantoms and dust,
the mere echoes of echoes, the one living source of information
that had lingered on into our time had been unheeded by us.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: one he had not memorized. He saw that his electric flashlight
was in working order. Rice, beside him, took from a valise a metal
sprayer of the sort used in combating insects; whilst Morgan uncased
the big-game rifle on which he relied despite his colleague's
warnings that no material weapon would be of help.
Armitage,
having read the hideous diary, knew painfully well what kind of
a manifestation to expect; but he did not add to the fright of
the Dunwich people by giving any hints or clues. He hoped that
it might be conquered without any revelation to the world of the
monstrous thing it had escaped. As the shadows gathered, the natives
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