| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: three clerks. Take the outside figure, and the sum expended on or
for His Majesty amounts to ninety-five dollars in the month.
Lieutenant Ulfsparre and Dr. Hagberg (the chief justice's Swedish
friends) drew in the same period one hundred and forty and one
hundred dollars respectively on account of salary alone. And it
should be observed that Dr. Hagberg was employed, or at least paid,
from government funds, in the face of His Majesty's express and
reiterated protest. In another column of the statement, one
hundred and seventy-five dollars and seventy-five cents are debited
for the chief justice's travelling expenses. I am of the opinion
that if His Majesty desired (or dared) to take an outing, he would
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: respectful, even if one did attempt to pinch him while several
others eyed his leanness speculatively. Through patient glibbering
he made inquiries regarding his vanished friend, and found he
had become a ghoul of some prominence in abysses nearer the waking
world. A greenish elderly ghoul offered to conduct him to Pickman's
present habitation, so despite a natural loathing he followed
the creature into a capacious burrow and crawled after him for
hours in the blackness of rank mould. They emerged on a dim plain
strewn with singular relics of earth - old gravestones, broken
urns, and grotesque fragments of monuments - and Carter realised
with some emotion that he was probably nearer the waking world
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin: there is nothing improbable in the transmission of a habit to the offspring
at an earlier age than that at which it was first acquired by the parents.
From the foregoing remarks it seems probable that some actions,
which were at first performed consciously, have become
through habit and association converted into reflex actions,
and are now so firmly fixed and inherited, that they
are performed, even when not of the least use,[14] as often
as the same causes arise, which originally excited them in us
through the volition. In such cases the sensory nerve-cells
excite the motor cells, without first communicating with
those cells on which our consciousness and volition depend.
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