| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells: sunlit entertaining fruit-piled market-places and envious hotels.
For days and weeks together it did not seem to Benham that there was
anything that mattered in life but Amanda and the elemental joys of
living. And then the Research Magnificent began to stir in him
again. He perceived that Italy was not India, that the clue to the
questions he must answer lay in the crowded new towns that they
avoided, in the packed bookshops and the talk of men, and not in the
picturesque and flowery solitudes to which their lovemaking carried
them.
Moods began in which he seemed to forget Amanda altogether.
This happened first in the Certosa di Pavia whither they had gone
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft: the strange crew began to fire savagely and without warning upon
the schooner with a peculiarly heavy battery of brass cannon forming
part of the yacht's equipment. The Emma's men shewed fight, says
the survivor, and though the schooner began to sink from shots
beneath the water-line they managed to heave alongside their enemy
and board her, grappling with the savage crew on the yacht's deck,
and being forced to kill them all, the number being slightly superior,
because of their particularly abhorrent and desperate though rather
clumsy mode of fighting.
Three of the Emma's men, including
Capt. Collins and First Mate Green, were killed; and the remaining
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Happy Prince and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde: pearls. Then there was a State Banquet, which lasted for five
hours. The Prince and Princess sat at the top of the Great Hall
and drank out of a cup of clear crystal. Only true lovers could
drink out of this cup, for if false lips touched it, it grew grey
and dull and cloudy.
"It's quite clear that they love each other," said the little Page,
"as clear as crystal!" and the King doubled his salary a second
time. "What an honour!" cried all the courtiers.
After the banquet there was to be a Ball. The bride and bridegroom
were to dance the Rose-dance together, and the King had promised to
play the flute. He played very badly, but no one had ever dared to
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