| 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: ridge that was still nor the carven mitred mountains that walked.
All was blackness beneath as the fluttering legion surged northward
amidst rushing winds and invisible laughter in the aether, and
never a Shantak or less mentionable entity rose from the haunted
wastes to pursue them. The farther they went, the faster they
flew, till soon their dizzying speed seemed to pass that of a
rifle ball and approach that of a planet in its orbit. Carter
wondered how with such speed the earth could still stretch beneath
them, but knew that in the land of dream dimensions have strange
properties. That they were in a realm of eternal night he felt
certain, and he fancied that the constellations overhead had subtly
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from New Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson: I knew thee helpful, knew thee true, knew thee
And Pity bedfellows: I heard thy talk
With answerable throbbings. On the stream,
Deep, swift, and clear, the lilies floated; fish
Through the shadows ran. There, thou and I
Read Kindness in our eyes and closed the match.
FIXED IS THE DOOM
FIXED is the doom; and to the last of years
Teacher and taught, friend, lover, parent, child,
Each walks, though near, yet separate; each beholds
His dear ones shine beyond him like the stars.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lemorne Versus Huell by Elizabeth Drew Stoddard: "Do I?"
"I shall not be poor if I lose; if I gain, Margaret will be
rich."
"'Margaret will be rich,'" he repeated, absently.
"What! have you changed your mind respecting the orphans, aunt?"
"She has, and is--nothing," she went on, not heeding my remark.
"Her father married below his station; when he died his wife fell
back to her place--for he spent his fortune--and there she and
Margaret must remain, unless Lemorne is defeated."
"Aunt, for your succinct biography of my position many thanks."
"Sixty thousand dollars," she continued. "Van Horn tells me that,
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