| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: polished top were scratches showing where some heavy object had
rested. The queer machine was gone, nor was anything afterward
heard of it. Undoubtedly the dark, lean foreigner had taken it
away.
In the library grate were abundant ashes, evidently left
from the burning of the every remainmg scrap of paper on which
I had written since the advent of the amnesia. Dr Wilson found
my breathing very peculiar, but after a hypodermic injection it
became more regular.
At 11.15 A.M., 27 September, I stirred
vigorously, and my hitherto masklike face began to show signs
Shadow out of Time |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The White Moll by Frank L. Packard: returning, he set the candle down upon the chair and began to pace
restlessly, three or four steps each way, up and down in front of
the bed.
Rhoda Gray, from the edge of the bed, shifted back until her
shoulders rested against the wall. Danglar, too, was dressed like
a gentleman - but Danglar's face was not appealing. The little
round black eyes were shifty, they seemed to possess no pupils
whatever, and they roved constantly; there was a hard, unyielding
thinness about the lips, and the face itself was thin, almost gaunt,
as though the skin had had to accommodate itself to more than was
expected of it, and was elastically stretched over the cheek-bones.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Hiero by Xenophon: greed.
[18] Reading with Breit. {eis timas}, or if the vulg. {isotimous},
transl. "as equal merely to themselves in privilege"; or if with
Schenkl (and Holden, ed. 3) {isotimias}, transl. "their firm
persuasion is these hirelings are not supported by the tyrant in
the interests of equality but of undue influence."
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To these arguments Simonides in turn made answer: Nay, Hiero, I am far
from stating that you have not all these divers matters to attend to.
They are serious duties,[1] I admit. But still, what strikes me is, if
half these grave responsibilities do lend themselves undoubtedly to
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