| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: face he covered his head altogether and slept in peace till roused
by the magah birds in distant resin groves.
The sun had just
come up over the great slope whereon leagues of primal brick foundations
and worn walls and occasional cracked pillars and pedestals stretched
down desolate to the shore of Yath, and Carter looked about for
his tethered zebra. Great was his dismay to see that docile beast
stretched prostrate beside the curious pillar to which it had
been tied, and still greater was he vexed on finding that the
steed was quite dead, with its blood all sucked away through a
singular wound in its throat. His pack had been disturbed, and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Astoria by Washington Irving: The Village of Wish-ram.- Roguery of the Inhabitants.- Their
Habitations.- Tidings of Astoria.- Of the Tonquin Massacre.-
Thieves About the Camp.-A Band of Braggarts- Embarkation.-
Arrival at Astoria.-A Joyful Reception.- Old Comrades- Adventures
of Reed, M'Lellan, and M'Kenzie Among the Snake River Mountains.-
Rejoicing at Astoria.
0F the village of Wish-ram, the aborigines' fishing mart of the
Columbia, we have given some account in an early chapter of this
work. The inhabitants held a traffic in the productions of the
fisheries of the falls, and their village was the trading resort
of the tribes from the coast and from the mountains. Mr. Hunt
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Letters from England by Elizabeth Davis Bancroft: me. In the evening we dined there with many of the clergy, and Lord
Brougham, Lord Dundonald, etc. I went down with the Dean of
Westminster, who was very agreeable and instructive. He and Dr.
Whately have the simplicity of children, with an immense deal of
knowledge, which they impart in the most pleasant way. Saturday,
the 24th, we were to leave town for our first country excursion. We
were invited by Dr. Hawtrey, the Head Master of Eton, to be present
at the ceremonies accompanying the annual election of such boys on
the Foundation as are selected to go up to King's College,
Cambridge, where they are also placed on a Foundation. From reading
Dr. Arnold's life you will have learned that the head master of one
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