| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: text represented an artificial alphabet, giving the effect of
a cipher; though none of the usual methods of cryptographic solution
seemed to furnish any clue, even when applied on the basis of
every tongue the writer might conceivably have used. The ancient
books taken from Whateley's quarters, while absorbingly interesting
and in several cases promising to open up new and terrible lines
of research among philosophers and men of science, were of no
assistance whatever in this matter. One of them, a heavy tome
with an iron clasp, was in another unknown alphabet - this one
of a very different cast, and resembling Sanskrit more than anything
else. The old ledger was at length given wholly into the charge
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Plain Tales from the Hills by Rudyard Kipling: days' leave to go shooting near a Canal Engineer's Rest House about
thirty miles out. He got his leave, and that night at Mess was
noisier and more offensive than ever. He said that he was "going
to shoot big game, and left at half-past ten o'clock in an ekka.
Partridge--which was the only thing a man could get near the Rest
House--is not big game; so every one laughed.
Next morning one of the Majors came in from short leave, and heard
that The Boy had gone out to shoot "big game." The Major had taken
an interest in The Boy, and had, more than once, tried to check him
in the cold weather. The Major put up his eyebrows when he heard
of the expedition and went to The Boy's room, where he rummaged.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Street of Seven Stars by Mary Roberts Rinehart: old place."
"Rather," commented Stewart, "with goddesses in the garden and
all the usual stunts."
"Goddesses?"
"Ran into one just now among the trees. 'A woman I forswore, but
thou being a goddess I forswore not thee.' English-speaking
goddess, by George!"
Peter was staring at him incredulously; now he bent forward and
grasped his arm in fingers of steel.
"For Heaven's sake, Stewart, tell me what you mean! Who was in
the garden?"
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