| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: his mother nearly out of patience.
Kuranes, clad in a dressing
gown of the sort favoured by London tailors in his youth, rose
eagerly to meet his guest; for the sight of an Anglo-Saxon from
the waking world was very dear to him, even if it was a Saxon
from Boston, Massachusetts, instead of from Cornwall. And for
long they talked of old times, having much to say because both
were old dreamers and well versed in the wonders of incredible
places. Kuranes, indeed, had been out beyond the stars in the
ultimate void, and was said to be the only one who had ever returned
sane from such a voyage.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Timaeus by Plato: we maintain to be the most beautiful of all the many triangles (and we need
not speak of the others) is that of which the double forms a third triangle
which is equilateral; the reason of this would be long to tell; he who
disproves what we are saying, and shows that we are mistaken, may claim a
friendly victory. Then let us choose two triangles, out of which fire and
the other elements have been constructed, one isosceles, the other having
the square of the longer side equal to three times the square of the lesser
side.
Now is the time to explain what was before obscurely said: there was an
error in imagining that all the four elements might be generated by and
into one another; this, I say, was an erroneous supposition, for there are
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The King of the Golden River by John Ruskin: So saying, the dwarf stooped and plucked a lily that grew at his feet.
On its white leaves there hung three drops of clear dew.
And the dwarf shook them into the flask which Gluck held in his hand.
"Cast these into the river," he said, "and descend on the other side
of the mountains into the Treasure Valley. And so good speed."
As he spoke the figure of the dwarf became indistinct. The
playing colors of his robe formed themselves into a prismatic mist
of dewy light; he stood for an instant veiled with them as with the
belt of a broad rainbow. The colors grew faint; the mist rose into
the air; the monarch had evaporated.
And Gluck climbed to the brink of the Golden River, and its
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