| 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: land was getting higher, and finally they came to a wind-swept
table-land which seemed the very roof of a blasted and tenantless
world. There, all alone in the hush and the dusk and the cold,
rose the uncouth stones of a squat windowless building, around
which a circle of crude monoliths stood. In all this arrangement
there was nothing human, and Carter surmised from old tales that
he was indeed come to that most dreadful and legendary of all
places, the remote and prehistoric monastery wherein dwells uncompanioned
the High-Priest Not To Be Described, which wears a yellow silken
mask over its face and prays to the Other Gods and their crawling
chaos Nyarlathotep.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso: Yet could not so his captive arm unbind:
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His sword at last he let hang by the chain,
And griped his hardy foe in both his hands,
In his strong arms Tancred caught him again,
And thus each other held and wrapped in bands.
With greater might Alcides did not strain
The giant Antheus on the Lybian sands,
On holdfast knots their brawny arms they cast,
And whom he hateth most, each held embraced:
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen: even by a servant, would be unpleasant; but by the general
(and he seemed always at hand when least wanted), much
worse! She listened--the sound had ceased; and resolving not
to lose a moment, she passed through and closed the door.
At that instant a door underneath was hastily opened;
someone seemed with swift steps to ascend the stairs,
by the head of which she had yet to pass before she
could gain the gallery. She bad no power to move.
With a feeling of terror not very definable, she fixed
her eyes on the staircase, and in a few moments it gave
Henry to her view. "Mr. Tilney!" she exclaimed in a voice
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