| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Two Brothers by Honore de Balzac: crab-girl, was to allow her, on the following day, to make her first
communion. The marriage was the text of the following pious article in
the "Journal du Cher," published at Bourges, and in the "Journal de
l'Indre," published at Chateauroux:
Issoudun.--The revival of religion is progressing in Berry.
Friends of the Church and all respectable persons in this town
were yesterday witnesses of a marriage ceremony by which a leading
man of property put an end to a scandalous connection, which began
at the time when the authority of religion was overthrown in this
region. This event, due to the enlightened zeal of the clergy of
Issoudun will, we trust, have imitators, and put a stop to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: After a time we came across a row of windows - in the bulges
of a colossal five-edged cone of undamaged apex - which led into
a vast, well-preserved room with stone flooring; but these were
too high in the room to permit descent without a rope. We had
a rope with us, but did not wish to bother with this twenty-foot
drop unless obliged to-especially in this thin plateau air where
great demands were made upon the heart action. This enormous room
was probably a hall or concourse of some sort, and our electric
torches showed bold, distinct, and potentially startling sculptures
arranged round the walls in broad, horizontal bands separated
by equally broad strips of conventional arabesques. We took careful
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Twelve Stories and a Dream by H. G. Wells: experiments with Mr. Vincey before his remarkable attack. Mr. Bessel's
first attempts at self-projection, in his experiments with Mr. Vincey,
were, as the reader will remember, unsuccessful. But through all
of them he was concentrating all his power and will upon getting
out of the body--"willing it with all my might," he says. At last,
almost against expectation, came success. And Mr. Bessel asserts that
he, being alive, did actually, by an effort of will, leave his body
and pass into some place or state outside this world.
The release was, he asserts, instantaneous. "At one moment I was
seated in my chair, with my eyes tightly shut, my hands gripping
the arms of the chair, doing all I could to concentrate my mind
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