| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Edingburgh Picturesque Notes by Robert Louis Stevenson: martyrs' monument is a wholesome, heartsome spot in the
field of the dead; and as we look upon it, a brave
influence comes to us from the land of those who have won
their discharge and, in another phrase of Patrick
Walker's, got 'cleanly off the stage.'
CHAPTER VI.
NEW TOWN - TOWN AND COUNTRY.
IT is as much a matter of course to decry the New
Town as to exalt the Old; and the most celebrated
authorities have picked out this quarter as the very
emblem of what is condemnable in architecture. Much may
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Mother by Owen Wister: "'They are a lead-pipe cinch,' I immediately answered; and he slapped me
on the knee."
"'That's what I think!' he cried. 'Anyhow, I have taken 20,000 for
mother. Do what you like.'"
"'Oh well,' said I, delighted at this confidence, I think I can afford to
risk what you are willing to risk for your mother, Mrs. Beverly. Where is
Petunia, did you say?'"
"He pulled down a roller map on the wall as you draw down a window-blind,
and again I listened to statements that churned in my brain. Petunia was
a new resort on the sea coast of New Hampshire. One railway system did
already connect it with both Portsmouth and Portland, but it was not a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft: One thing I began to suspect, and which I now fear I know, is
that my uncle's death was far from natural. He fell on a narrow
hill street leading up from an ancient waterfront swarming with
foreign mongrels, after a careless push from a Negro sailor. I
did not forget the mixed blood and marine pursuits of the cult-members
in Louisiana, and would not be surprised to learn of secret methods
and rites and beliefs. Legrasse and his men, it is true, have
been let alone; but in Norway a certain seaman who saw things
is dead. Might not the deeper inquiries of my uncle after encountering
the sculptor's data have come to sinister ears?. I think Professor
Angell died because he knew too much, or because he was likely
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