| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: often confessed to a shuddering sensation of stealthy pursuit.
He half felt that he was followed -- a psychological delusion
of shaken nerves, enhanced by the undeniably disturbing fact that
at least one of our reanimated specimens was still alive -- a
frightful carnivorous thing in a padded cell at Sefton. Then there
was another -- our first -- whose exact fate we had never learned.
We had fair luck with specimens in Bolton -- much better than
in Arkham. We had not been settled a week before we got an accident
victim on the very night of burial, and made it open its eyes
with an amazingly rational expression before the solution failed.
It had lost an arm -- if it had been a perfect body we might have
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Man against the Sky by Edwin Arlington Robinson: Why pay we such a price, and one we give
So clamoringly, for each racked empty day
That leads one more last human hope away,
As quiet fiends would lead past our crazed eyes
Our children to an unseen sacrifice?
If after all that we have lived and thought,
All comes to Nought, --
If there be nothing after Now,
And we be nothing anyhow,
And we know that, -- why live?
'Twere sure but weaklings' vain distress
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Charmides by Plato: these will be halves; for the double is relative to the half?
That is true.
And that which is greater than itself will also be less, and that which is
heavier will also be lighter, and that which is older will also be younger:
and the same of other things; that which has a nature relative to self will
retain also the nature of its object: I mean to say, for example, that
hearing is, as we say, of sound or voice. Is that true?
Yes.
Then if hearing hears itself, it must hear a voice; for there is no other
way of hearing.
Certainly.
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