| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: and boring journey of January 11th to 18th with Pabodie and five
others - marred by the loss of two dogs in an upset when crossing
one of the great pressure ridges in the ice - had brought up more
and more of the Archaean slate; and even I was interested by the
singular profusion of evident fossil markings in that unbelievably
ancient stratum. These markings, however, were of very primitive
life forms involving no great paradox except that any life forms
should occur in rock as definitely pre-Cambrian as this seemed
to be; hence I still failed to see the good sense of Lake’s demand
for an interlude in our time-saving program - an interlude requiring
the use of all four planes, many men, and the whole of the expedition’s
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Proposed Roads To Freedom by Bertrand Russell: a body consisting of the most eminent celebrities in
an art or a science, whose business it shall be to judge
the work of young men, and to issue licenses to those
whose productions find favor in their eyes. A licensed
artist shall be considered to have performed his duty
to the community by producing works of art. But of
course he will have to prove his industry by never
failing to produce in reasonable quantities, and his
continued ability by never failing to please his
eminent judges--until, in the fulness of time, he
becomes a judge himself. In this way, the authorities
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Domestic Peace by Honore de Balzac: Madame de Soulanges yielded to her seducer, who thought she would be
his all the more surely if he could only show her off. Side by side
they walked two or three times amid the groups who crowded the rooms.
The Comtesse de Soulanges, evidently uneasy, paused for an instant at
each door before entering, only doing so after stretching her neck to
look at all the men there. This alarm, which crowned the Baron's
satisfaction, did not seem to be removed till he said to her, "Make
yourself easy; HE is not here."
They thus made their way to an immense picture gallery in a wing of
the mansion, where their eyes could feast in anticipation on the
splendid display of a collation prepared for three hundred persons. As
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