| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft: from showing to other eyes. It had been locked and I did not find
the key till it occurred to me to examine the personal ring which
the professor carried in his pocket. Then, indeed, I succeeded
in opening it, but when I did so seemed only to be confronted
by a greater and more closely locked barrier. For what could be
the meaning of the queer clay bas-relief and the disjointed jottings,
ramblings, and cuttings which I found? Had my uncle, in his latter
years become credulous of the most superficial impostures? I resolved
to search out the eccentric sculptor responsible for this apparent
disturbance of an old man's peace of mind.
The bas-relief was
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield: Aunt Josephine, you're perfectly right. Father's most frightfully keen on
meringues."
They didn't only beam. Aunt Josephine went scarlet with pleasure; Auntie
Con gave a deep, deep sigh.
"And now, Cyril, you must come and see father," said Josephine. "He knows
you were coming to-day."
"Right," said Cyril, very firmly and heartily. He got up from his chair;
suddenly he glanced at the clock.
"I say, Auntie Con, isn't your clock a bit slow? I've got to meet a man
at--at Paddington just after five. I'm afraid I shan't be able to stay
very long with grandfather."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tao Teh King by Lao-tze: frighten them with death? If the people were always in awe of death,
and I could always seize those who do wrong, and put them to death,
who would dare to do wrong?
2. There is always One who presides over the infliction death. He who
would inflict death in the room of him who so presides over it may be
described as hewing wood instead of a great carpenter. Seldom is it
that he who undertakes the hewing, instead of the great carpenter,
does not cut his own hands!
75. 1. The people suffer from famine because of the multitude of taxes
consumed by their superiors. It is through this that they suffer
famine.
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